Responding to the worries of innocent bystander users in the US of the Motorola Inc 68030 and of the Hitachi Ltd H8 microcontroller, Federal Judge Lucius Bunting suspended his injunction ordering the two companies to stop selling the chips in the US. The stay of execution will stand pending any appeal of the original ruling, and makes it clear that the judge’s prime aim was to shock the two companies into coming to an out-of-court settlement – in his judgement, he criticised the two for wasting the time of the court with their lawsuits This suit is not the sort of thing Federal courts should spend time and energy upon, the judge opined.
