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Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the shake-them-like-a-poloroid-picture dept.

nberardi writes "The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is reporting that Eastman Kodak Company has just won a patent suit against Sun on the Java Language. According to the article Kodak owns a patent which describes a way for a piece of software to "ask for help" from another application. What they are claiming is that Sun violates this patent when Java byte code uses the Java engine to run the code. This may really upset the industry, because not only Sun uses this technology for Java but Microsoft uses this technology in .Net."

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  1. Re:That's, like, all interpreted byte-coded langua by etaluclac · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, that's why c will never die--not from tradition, nostalgia or speed. From now on, to avoid liability, the linux startup scripts will have to be written in precompiled c (thanks to the wonderful #! symbol). I welcome our new patent-holding overlords!

  2. Re:Only the lawyers win... by mekkab · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the end, it's only the lawyers who win.

    And their (soon-to-be after this settlement!) stay-at-home spouses!

    Mekka- married to a lawyer- B

    P.S.- I know what I'm asking for as a christmas present! It starts with a "b" and ends with a "eowolf cluster"

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    In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
  3. Re:WTF? Kodak?! The camera people? by slAckEr+Of+dOOm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon we'll be calling every patent lawsuit a "Kodak moment"

  4. Java IS addictive, after all by palpatine · · Score: 3, Funny

    The previous story is true, I guess coffee IS addictive!

  5. Re:I welcome the patent 'nuclear winter'... by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I see Kodak like a rouge nation.

    What the hell does makeup have to do with this?

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