Jobs needs to answer lawsuit
By Sakthi Prasad |
March 23, 2011, Wednesday
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A FEDERAL judge has ordered Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs to answer questions relating to an antitrust lawsuit that says the company's iTunes software maintained a monopoly in portable digital media players and music downloads.
Judge Howard Lloyd of the United States District Court for Northern California on Monday ordered that lawyers representing the plaintiffs may question Jobs for two hours.
Lloyd said the questioning of Jobs should be limited to changes Apple made to its software in October 2004 that prevented iTunes rival RealNetworks's music files from being played on Apple's iPod music players.
Jobs has been out on medical leave since late January, and the court ruling came amid an intense media scrutiny of his health condition.
"The court finds that Jobs has unique, non-repetitive, first hand knowledge about Apple's software updates in October 2004 that rendered the RealNetworks's digital music files once again inoperable with iPods," Judge Lloyd ruled.
Judge Howard Lloyd of the United States District Court for Northern California on Monday ordered that lawyers representing the plaintiffs may question Jobs for two hours.
Lloyd said the questioning of Jobs should be limited to changes Apple made to its software in October 2004 that prevented iTunes rival RealNetworks's music files from being played on Apple's iPod music players.
Jobs has been out on medical leave since late January, and the court ruling came amid an intense media scrutiny of his health condition.
"The court finds that Jobs has unique, non-repetitive, first hand knowledge about Apple's software updates in October 2004 that rendered the RealNetworks's digital music files once again inoperable with iPods," Judge Lloyd ruled.
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