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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. Re:In Soviet Russia by Mantorp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How could you be so sure? Always wondered but usually only ACs take credit...

  2. Re:And a ham sandwich, too!! by Valiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or at the very least a MLT: mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich where the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato is ripe....they're so perky. I love that.

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  3. Re:This is the logical extension by antistuff · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    what about keanu reaves..."shoot the hostage"?

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  4. Re:This is the logical extension by thasmudyan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah that's like saying pox vaccination is killing people - not guns! Airbags save FAR FAR MORE lives than they take - even though there are stupid people who put their children's head in front of airbag hatches!
    How can you get by pretending to be an educated person and even bragging about your education when your post is really just stupid ranting to make your point that "with guns people are safe and free"???

    yeah, I know, flame away...

  5. Re:That's ludicrous by sheldon · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "The systems (Mozilla, the OSes) you mention, as well as Java, are at a competitive disadvantage not because of technical or corporate incompetence "

    Ahh, but the reality is that there has been gross technical or corporate incompetence. Microsoft may use some strong-armed tactics, but the reality is they just also happen to be a lot smarter than their competitors. This case resembles more the ALCOA anti-trust trial than AT&T.

    Your basic desire is to handicap the players, which is understandable, but there's a difference between making a jockey carry an extra 20 pounds of lead on his horse, and tying one jockey's arm behind his back... You see, even in a handicapped race the dominate player is still going to win quite frequently.

    "So anything that helps competition's return helps me."

    I'd rather see companies promote interesting technologies than interesting lawsuits.

    What happens in 3 years time when Sun has lost it's marketshare in the Unix server world and files for bankruptcy? Even though it is Linux which eroding this market, will it be Microsoft's fault?

    Again, this goes right back to corporate incompetence.