Sun and Microsoft Make Nice

DrLudicrous writes "Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have reached some kind of settlement (NYTimes, registration required) with regards to patent issues and Sun's antitrust suit against Microsoft. Microsoft is apparently going to pay Sun about 1.6 billion US dollars, join into a ten-year pact of cooperation, and resolve a set of patent disputes. This has been in the works for about a year, starting as a series of phone calls between Scott McNealy and Steve Ballmer. You can also catch the story here." update oh well, it's a duplicate. Nothing else interesting happening today :)

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Damn deja vu. Where's that cat ?

[Space cowboy]

... because I could have sworn that 'Sun and Microsoft Settled Litigation' yesterday...

Looks like it loses 400 million dollars a day though, so pretty soon Sun'll be paying a huge wad of cash over to Bill...

Simon

Re:Damn deja vu. Where's that cat ?

[kev0153]

Looks like they have changed something in the Matrix.

Old News.

[hot_Karls_bad_cavern]

And i think we already went over how it gives Microsoft a "foot in the door" for interoperability with Unix via java and .NET.

First they ignored, then laughed and are now assimilating.

Re:What effect will this have on Java?

[geekoid]

or perhaps its a J# killer?

Heh

[Omega1045]

The next Slashdot duplicate story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!

For 1.6 Billion...

[Qbertino]

...even I would make nice with Microsoft.

heh

[segfault7375]

update: oh well, it's a duplicate.

The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem.

CmdrTaco: Hello, My name is CmdrTaco, and I am a duplicate addict.
All: Hi CmdrTaco!

:-)

OOo

[jaavaaguru]

Microsoft pays Sun a large amount of money. So really, a lot of the hard work that went into the free Office suite I use is being paid for by the sheep who bought Microsoft Office. Nice :-)

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[tonywestonuk]

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I can see it now...

[u-235-sentinel]

Cats and dogs living together, the lamb and the lion sleeping together... mass hysteria.

What is the world coming to. Next thing you know, someone will tell me Microsoft is selling Linux ;-)