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Sun and Microsoft Make Nice

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the more-expensive-then-a-kiss-and-make-up dept.

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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  1. Damn deja vu. Where's that cat ? by Space+cowboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... 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...

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    1. Re:Damn deja vu. Where's that cat ? by kev0153 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Looks like they have changed something in the Matrix.

  2. Re:What effect will this have on Java? by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    or perhaps its a J# killer?

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  3. Heh by Omega1045 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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