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Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java

Posted by timothy on from the macro-management dept.

An anonymous reader was the 17,232th person to submit that "Microsoft has been ordered to include Sun's Java runtime in Windows. Coverage from AP (via Yahoo), Reuters (via news.com), and, let's say, the BBC."

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  1. Makes you wonder by phorm · · Score: 5, Funny

    If this is a real number... or an exaggeration. The editors must really have a tough time of it sometimes, if they get this many articles. No wonder we get dupe posts etc.

    I've had a question submission in pending since last week, they're probably really busy (or, hopefully, saving mine for a slow day).

    17,232 on a Microsoft court ruling... I wonder how many post when the next distro of brand-X linux comes out. Also wonder how many people are visiting /. in a day lately, if this many are actually posting submissions.

    Also wonder if they chose the AC just so that the other 17,231 people didn't have a name to cry foul upon when theirs was not the chosen submission.

  2. I have the karma to burn by Quasar1999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    An anonymous reader was the 17,232th person to submit...

    17,232th? What the hell? No, no, no... you see this is the reason that Microsoft didn't want java included in the first place... stupid syntactical errors like the above can be generated quite easily using java, but asp libraries prevent such mistakes, and would have genereated '17,232nd' as the proper response.

    Well, unless of course a human wrote that... in which case, shame on you... proof read dang it!

    But on a serious note (to help save my karma), putting aside that this is microsoft, and they are evil, doesn't imposing the will of SUN onto microsoft violate something? or at the very least lower them to the same level? Microsoft wasn't preventing java from running on their os, they simple did not BUNDLE a competing product. What the hell? I don't see the problem. What next? DVD manufacturers have to bundle competing (free) DVD player software with their drives? I think not! Although MS deserves it... as a whole, this is not the right thing to do.

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  3. Re:Poor Java by Aram+Fingal · · Score: 3, Funny
    So much potential (and it still is an absolutely great platform) but it got such a kick in the ribs from MS and this decision is typically late in prescribing a remedy.
    Does "it" refer to Java or Windows?
  4. Re:Main point - IE must install Java Plugin by ClosedSource · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yes, I'm sure that this judge knows more about programming then most of us here. After all we know more about law then he does, right?