Legal Opinion
Open Software Foundation, Inc., and Hewlett Packard Company v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 13, 2002No. 01-2342PublishedCited by 234 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs Open Software Foundation (OSF) and Hewlett-Packard (HP) brought this diversity action against USF&G, their general commercial liability insurer, claiming that USF&G had a duty to defend a lawsuit filed against them by Addamax Corporation, a software manufacturer. 1 After OSF decided not to bundle Addamax security software into its UNIX-based operating system, Addamax sued OSF in 1989, alleging that it was a price-fixing purchasing pool. The litigation continued until 1998, when we affirmed Judge Tauro’s grant of summary judgment to OSF. See Addamax v. Open…
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