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MS Must Ship Java With Windows Within 120 Days

Posted by timothy on from the but-at-least-it's-not-micromanagement dept.

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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  1. Bah by Mondain98 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Sun Java (JVM) is crap. What a step backwards.

  2. On a completely childish level... by boinger · · Score: 0, Troll
    ...This just makes me giggly.

    Just like watching the bully getting dragged by the ear to the car by his mom.

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  3. Re:Odd... by Lurker_2k · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft was allowed to continue to give out their JVM for up to 5 years as part of the initial settlement. However they couldn't automatically install it during the OS installation, it could be installed later, but not bundled. IE, it was allowed to be distributed via the web.

    MS decided to not have it available for the full 5 years. Sun noticed this and promptly sued. Sun is being the assholes here. This suit should NOT have been won by Sun. It is entirely stupid. Sun sued MS for shipping a MS JVM and they (rightfully) won. MS doesn't ship their JVM anymore and Sun sues them. WTF?