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Title: Mircosoft Must Ship Java within 120 Days
Post by: Kees on January 16, 2003, 08:47:53 PM

"The federal judge on Wednesday ordered Microsoft to begin shipping Sun Microsystems' Java with the Windows operating system within 120 days, after the companies fought over implementing a ruling he made last month."

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Title: Re: Mircosoft Must Merry Java Within 120 Day's
Post by: amigamad on January 16, 2003, 10:03:45 PM

Serves them right.

Title: Re: Mircosoft Must Merry Java Within 120 Day's
Post by: Paul_Gadd on January 16, 2003, 11:06:08 PM

I hope m$ gets away with it.

Title: Re: Mircosoft Must Ship Java within 120 Days
Post by: Damion on January 17, 2003, 03:09:30 AM

This is totally lame, this ruling is basically
saying that monopolies are OK, unless it's Micro-
soft....so let Sun do it on Microsoft's behalf...
incredible. I hope Microsoft gets out of it
somehow.

Title: Re: Mircosoft Must Ship Java within 120 Days
Post by: gnarly on January 17, 2003, 11:27:33 AM

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This is totally lame, this ruling is basically
saying that monopolies are OK, unless it's Micro-
soft....so let Sun do it on Microsoft's behalf...
incredible.

Ah, but MS first shipped a broken, old, inferior Java VM, then stopped shipping Java at all, in order to promote their own .NET product. Its a complex web of stuff. Neither party is without fault on this one.