Editing Data General RDOS (section)

==Antitrust lawsuit==
In the late 1970s, Data General was sued (under the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts)<ref>{{cite book|title=Santa Clara computer and high-technology law journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C0JMAQAAIAAJ|year=1986}}</ref> by competitors for their practice of bundling RDOS with the Data General Nova or Eclipse minicomputer.<ref name="Justia1">{{cite web|title=In Re Data General Corp. Antitrust Litigation, 529 F. Supp. 801 (N.D. Cal. 1981)|url=http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/529/801/2355387/|website=Justia|access-date=26 December 2016}}</ref> When Data General introduced the [[Data General Nova]], a company called Digidyne wanted to use its RDOS [[operating system]] on its own [[Clone (computing)|hardware clone]]. Data General refused to [[Software license|license their software]] and claimed their "bundling rights". In 1985, courts including the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] ruled against Data General in a case called ''Digidyne v. Data General''. The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] [[Certiorari|declined to hear]] Data General's appeal, although [[Associate Justice|Justices]] [[Byron White|White]] and [[Harry Blackmun|Blackmun]] [[List of United States Supreme Court copyright case law#Dissents to denials of certiorari|would have heard it]]. The precedent set by the lower courts eventually forced Data General to license the operating system because restricting the software to only Data General's hardware was an illegal tying arrangement.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Myers |first=Gary |title=Tying Arrangements and the Computer Industry: Digidyne Corp. vs. Data General |journal=Duke Law Journal |volume=1985 |issue=5 |pages=1027–1056 |date=November 1985 |doi=10.2307/1372482 |jstor=1372482|url=https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2927&context=dlj |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In 1999, Data General was taken over by [[EMC Corporation]].<ref name="Inc.1999">{{cite journal|author=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.|title=InfoWorld|journal=InfoWorld: The Newspaper for the Microcomputing Community|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YUoEAAAAMBAJ|date=16 August 1999|publisher=InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_YUoEAAAAMBAJ/page/n67 12]–|issn=0199-6649}}</ref>