User:Rogeragross

I am Roger Alan Gross, best known for my engineering contributions and leadership within the Digital Research, Novell, and Caldera ecosystems, particularly regarding the development of DR-DOS, early mobile power management, thin-client applications, and server-side browser architectures.

I co-invented and developed the BatteryMax operating system led power management system and MarioNet a split architecture server based web browser.

Role in Caldera v. Microsoft

During the high-profile Caldera v. Microsoft private antitrust litigation, I lead a UK-based engineering team that provided crucial technical evidence used to counter Microsoft's defense assertions. To demonstrate that the technological binding of Windows 95 to MS-DOS was an artificial marketing exclusion rather than a functional requirement, I retained software author and researcher Andrew Schulman as a consultant and DOS specialist Matthias R Paul.

Working alongside the engineering crew in Andover, the initiative yielded the technical solutions code-named "WinGlue" and later "WinBolt." These projects successfully executed Windows 95 software natively on top of alternative DR-DOS architectures. While remaining commercial unreleased, these demonstrations served as foundational technical evidence indicating that DOS still existed as a distinct decoupled layer beneath Windows 95, a key component within the case that ultimately culminated in the out-of-court settlement in 2000. This initiative also became a focal point of antitrust litigation during the United States Department of Justice investigation into Microsoft.