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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. In related news.. by L.+VeGas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Three members of the federal appeals court have just purchased Ferraris.

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  2. Challenge by tomstdenis · · Score: 2, Funny

    Find 10 suits who know the diff between MS and SUN Java and I'll give you 100$ [subject to my approval]

    Tom

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  3. Re:actually, by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that these Java nerds have started to commit suicide under the walls of Microsoft. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never been a reality, this Java.

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  4. Re:it doesnt matter anymore by dthable · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Christina Aguilera (sp?) promo was a smart move in collaboration with Motorola

    Ugh! I feel so dirty as a Java developer. Time to switch to .Net.

  5. Re:actually, by kenthorvath · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yeah, I thought that was the case as well. Doesn't Apple have the only Java implementation that doesn't spawn a new VM for each new app? I can't remember what the terminology for it was.

    Efficient, I think is the term you are looking for, perhaps also see good, nice, cost-effective, and elegant. Now as an excersise to the reader I leave you the task of assigning some terms to Microsoft products... (grin)...

  6. I wonder how long... by desau · · Score: 2, Funny

    >Fortunately, Dell and HP, the top 2 PC makers, have >already decided to ship Java on the PCs that they >sell. I wonder how long it will be until Microsoft says to Dell and HP: "If you're going to include Sun's Java, you'll have to pay full retail for every copy of Windows you sell."

  7. Re:Hate to say I agree, but... by Gherald · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mod you +6...

    Is that like one of those D&D superweapons?

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