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MS Must Ship Java With Windows Within 120 Days
Suppafly writes "Cnet is reporting that a 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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And if not, then it's Slashdot's fault for being slow today!
.... Java ships with Windows.
What if Linux were the monopoly operating system out there? What if it had a 95% market share and Microsoft/Apple had the other 5%? All you pro-linux people would of course say that it is because linux is the superior OS, its the easiest and most productive for consumers and all that. So what if Microsoft went to court to force linux to include .Net support?
You fools never think about the reversed situations. You only like it when the courts are used against your competetion and then you somehow rationalize it in your little minds to make yourselves feel better.
Get a clue and join reality.
Should AOL cds have to include a copy of every other little ISP's installation software? Isnt AOL leveraging their monopoly and cash reserves to squeeze out other ISPs by shipping out millions of their cds?
Should GM have to include Sony radio/cd players in their cars? Isnt GM forcing consumers to use their GM radios when they buy a car? Why shouldnt Sony be given an equal chance to have that consumer use a Sony radio? Should we include radios from every manufacturer in new cars and let the consumer choose which they want to use?
In america there is much questioning of judge. In Soviet Russia, judge orders questioning of you!
The great trumpeter Al Hirt played a catchy tune called Java - you can listen to a few bars here
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
Of course, Debian isn't an abusive monopoly
Okay then, look at it from the opposite direction. How would you like if the court ordered Microsoft to include Debian as part of the standard install? What if they had to include *every* Linux distro? And the BSDs? And every potential competing product in existance, free, open or otherwise?
This ruling requires a company to ship its competitors product. This is bad juju, plain and simple. Don't let your hatred of Microsoft destroy your rationality.
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I'm soooooo glad I don't have to deal with Java. :-)
Can all fish swim?
Yes but HE DID IT WRONG!!! Log the fuck in!
I hereby claim this post for the CLIT, we are coming back...
Proof of the gay-linux conspiracy!
Sorry for the anon, I can't register right now. I just had to reply to this comment because it was blatantly wrong, starting with the subject line. First off, you obviously do not have an understanding of socialism, but more importantly you have NO clue how capitalism is supposed to work.
When capitalism was first framed by Adam Smith (look him up and start reading before you make any more ridiculous comments) it was envisioned as a country of small business owners.
Corporations were never even considered because when the economic system was devised there were no global or even national business. There was no instantaneous communication or any of the other things that have allowed the large companies to form. Most of all, there were no monopolies. Smith believed in a world where the competition would never allow a company to exceed a scale of realism. In our modern capitalism the ideals of capitalism no longer exist. We live in a country where, we, the end users, must suffer a sub-par product because of the power and influence of multi-BILLION dollar companies. None of us can even conceive of that kind of loot. Yet us and the rest of the world get to pay so that a handful of people get unheard of profit. That is not capitalism. Nor is the judge's ruling socialism; it is enforcing capitalism's intent, to prevent monopolies.
In the future don't reference terms you really don't understand (like socialism), because that my friend is disgusting.
MS has not signed contracts with gator, at least as far to my knowledge. MS royally screwed Sun, to the point that Sun as a company bashes MS.
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poor dumb fuck
microslut broke the law. now they must pay. sun ownz all bills bases