Was he the one who bought Dr. Dos? Even thou by time it was just a shell, just so he could sue MS over DOS.

>Noorda overpaid for WordPerfect to try to fight Microsoft on every front. When that didn't pan out, he decided to fight MS in the courtroom on everything rather than in the marketplace. His business by litigation philosophy continued with his venture capital company as many companies he funded did/do business in the courtroom. SCO is one example.
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>>Just the opposite. He brought us netware - back then the best networking product and the most secure. There was a time when only Novell was C2. He was responsible for Novell's success until 1994 when he left and the company started to go downward and then it sunk, sunk, sunk...