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Appeals Court Sides With Microsoft On Java

Posted by michael on from the sweet-and-light dept.

burgburgburg writes "Reuters reports that the three-member federal appeals court in Virginia ruled today the U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz erred when he ordered Microsoft to include Java with the Windows operating system. Fortunately, Dell and HP, the top 2 PC makers, have already decided to ship Java on the PCs that they sell. Apple, Red Hat and Lindows have also agreed to include Sun's Java." The ruling is available.

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  1. Hate to say I agree, but... by donutz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why should a company be forced to include a competitors product with their own?

    Microsoft is definitely still awaiting its comeuppance, but the libertarian in me knows that more government and judicial bureaucracy isn't the way to get there.

    Go Linux!

  2. Re:Anticompetative behavior by gpinzone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, Sun doomed Java by not giving users a darned good enough reason to use Java on the desktop. Flash, ActiveX plugins, and Server Side scripting are what people use instead of Java applets.

  3. Re:actually, by Directrix1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But blowing Microsoft up, would send the other companies a message: "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!!!!"

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    Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF