Legal Opinion
Addamax Corp. v. Open Software Foundation, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 4, 1998No. 97-1807PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
Addamax Corporation brought a federal antitrust suit against Open Software Foundation (“OSF”), Hewlett-Packard Company and Digital Equipment Corporation. After a bench trial limited to the issues of causation and damages, the district court found that antitrust violations, even if they were assumed to have occurred, were not a material cause of Addamax’s failure in the line of business at issue. Addamax now appeals and we affirm.
We begin with a statement of those background facts that are more or less undisputed. Addamax was created by Dr. Peter A Alsberg in 1986 and, in…
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