No, Sun's lawsuit does not contradict the previous settlement at all.
The 2001 settlement allowed Microsoft to continue distributing its Java 1.1.4-compatible VM through 2008; the years-old VM that has some Microsoft-specific stuff in it.
Sun is now asking that Microsoft be forced to distribute the latest Java Plug-In, which reflects Java 1.3 and does not have any Microsoft-specific stuff.
Suppose the good folks at Lyons Partnerships would take offense at my "Rush Limbarney" skit? I performed it at a pro-choice fundraiser a few years ago. It involved me dressing up in a purple dinosaur costume, wearing a cartoonish head of Rush Limbaugh, and singing...
The program director at TNT must think like I do. TNT scheduled Red Dawn to play the same day as Y2K. Is this because they are, basically, the same movie?
America is imperiled by a terrible menace which the wise have been warning us about for years. Foolish nonbelievers are rescued by good ol' American ingenuity.
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No, Sun's lawsuit does not contradict the previous settlement at all.
The 2001 settlement allowed Microsoft to continue distributing its Java 1.1.4-compatible VM through 2008; the years-old VM that has some Microsoft-specific stuff in it.
Sun is now asking that Microsoft be forced to distribute the latest Java Plug-In, which reflects Java 1.3 and does not have any Microsoft-specific stuff.
There's no contradiction.
The program director at TNT must think like I do. TNT scheduled Red Dawn to play the same day as Y2K. Is this because they are, basically, the same movie?
America is imperiled by a terrible menace which the wise have been warning us about for years. Foolish nonbelievers are rescued by good ol' American ingenuity.
A lot like that NBC atomic train movie, actually.
Y2K and Atomic Train were both directed by Dick Lowry.