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Sun and Microsoft Settle Litigation

Posted by michael on from the I-guess-we-can-all-just-get-along dept.

spurious cowherd writes "According to The Register Sun Microsystems & Microsoft have reached a settlement in their several lawsuits aainst each other. Sun gets $2B and both parties agree to share intellectual property." There's a press release to read as well.

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  1. Haha by inertia187 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ha ha, very funny. April Fools...no wait, it's the second! Wow, imagine that!

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  2. All you had to do was use logic..... by telstar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously ... what's the point of having a place with Windows if there's no Sun out there to light things up? By the way ... Is it still April 1st in some timezone I'm not aware of?

  3. In other news by UltimaGuy · · Score: 4, Funny

    SCO and IBM settled their long standing dispute with IBM agreeing to pay SCO 3 billions and SCO accepting that Linux source code does not belong to them :-) And Bill Gates and RMS met over a dinner and shared jokes about their college days.

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  4. What is the B for by PinternetGroper · · Score: 3, Funny

    B is for billion, right, not just bucks? wow!

  5. Uncharacteristic Wording by Analogy+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    After all the rancor over the last few years the wording of the press release is so mechical...I wonder if you can see Scott McNealy's new borg implant blinking in the video coverage.

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  6. I can. by baudilus · · Score: 4, Funny

    $2,000,000,000 changes a person.

  7. Secret terms by metamatic · · Score: 3, Funny

    As part of the deal, Sun has also agreed to cripple Java by making Java applications really ugly and slow, and...

    Oh, wait, never mind.

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