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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. All U.S. Residents With Foreign Sounding Names +7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Must report to Mini-Me's Brown Shirts

    Cheers,
    W00t

    Get Your War On

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

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

  3. 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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  4. In other news... by chinton · · Score: -1, Troll
    Also handed down in the ruling:
    • Coke must now provide Pepsi products in its vending machines
    • McDonalds must also offer Whoppers on its menu
    Tell me how this is a Good Thing.
  5. 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?

  6. Re:Its about time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Java is no more a standard than Win32. So why dont you write to the Win32 standard? See how dumb that sounds - Saying Java is a standard only impresses those who are technicialy incompetent. Java is a proprietery language whose sole purpose and success is to be anti-Microsoft. I watched the same crap against IBM 20 years ago. 20 years from now it will be the same song again, different players, yawn.