Sun and Microsoft Settle Litigation

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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2 Bills?

[BWJones]

"According to The Register Sun Microsystems & Microsoft have reached a settlement in their 10 year old lawsuit. Sun gets $2B and both parties agree to share intellectual property."

Whoa......Apple got ripped off with the $150 Million settlement with their suit against Microsoft. But of course, Microsoft agreed to continue Office development for the Mac which would be hard to quantify in terms of investment potential. Additionally, there was the matter of Microsoft attempting to get Apple to kill Quicktime development......

Re:Two things stand out

[ThisIsFred]

I don't understand why Sun can just pull Microsoft's license so they can't call it "Java" anymore. I would say Sun is a little shortsighted, but there's no hope for them with Ashcroft asleep at the wheel. The 2 billion is just a smokescreen. Microsoft wouldn't have budged if it didn't think it would be able to use its monopoly power to force a "C#" VM on the Windows users in the very near future.