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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. And in related stock news... by dolo666 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... Microsoft stock sinks as $2bil walks swiftly out the door. Today is indeed a good day!

  2. Hmmmm by clifgriffin · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    2,000,000,000 is a lot of money.

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    1. Re:Hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Actually, 2 billion = 2,000,000,000,000

      Try reading a dictionary sometime.

  3. War is over! by jm.one · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now the war is over. But as always nobody has won in this war. There are many causualities. But don`t be afraid there are still many people who are independent and their number grows

  4. gwoat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Website Third, you t4e 8eaper BSD's

  5. JVM on windows by butane_bob2003 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    We have been looking into a Windows specific problem with slow compilation. If we are not pre-compiling JSP on Windows, initial page loads can take up to a minute or more on windows, where on linux they take 5-10 seconds to compile (same server hardware). Don't know if the it's the JSP engine's JSP->Servlet dynamic compiler or the java compiler itself on windows platforms, but something is taking lots of time (have not tried real profiling yet). We jokingly suspect that the OS is just not allowing things to happen quickly (JVM wants to spawn a thread? It can wait....) but this is just a joke... right? There would not be intentional performance bottle necks built in to effect the JVM specifically, would there? Is it unintentional, a direct effect of a bad design somewhere in windows or the jvm/compiler implementation? Or is it just bad code somewhere else? (what, dont look at me. My code is perfect...)

    Ok, I have no hope that this settlement and our problem are related, time to dust off the profiler and do some actual work...

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  6. Gotcha by Allen+Zadr · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    You may realize, that it's impossible to tell whom I am trying to convince of what - and afterall (besides THIS [-1 offtopic] post) my other posts have flowed with the conversation.

    Why post anonymously? I don't think anybody considers it karma whoring unless you post to your own posts (or copy the entire text of an article off of an [immune to slashdot effect] website). Following up on replies to your own comments (even if it's a first "rated" post) seem to me to just be good form.

    Thanks for listening,
    Allen Zadr (or someone pretending to be Allen Zadr)

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  7. What I'm Wondering... by davidle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is what all this identity management stuff is about. They have also said they want to embed it into hardware, not that I want to start any conspiracy theories or anything.