Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java

[Kintaro]

quote:./ says:
An anonymous reader was the 17,232th person to submit that "Microsoft has been ordered to include Sun's Java runtime in Windows. Coverage from AP (via Yahoo), Reuters (via news.com), and, let's say, the BBC

What are your thoughts on this...

[voidmain]

That there are too many people submitting articles on /.?

[Calum]

'Microsoft ordered to carry handguns' - "At least people will know they're a threat now" says Chief Justice.  

[Kintaro]

Well i think its good, But they should stop Microsoft distributing Internet Explorer alltogether.

[HibbeeBoy]

Her's an excert from the Edinburgh Evening News.

http://www.edinburghnews.com/business.cfm?id=1430942002

Two legal blows stun Microsoft


MICROSOFT, the world

[jtpenrod]

quote:Sendo alleges that Microsoft developed a "secret plan" to steal technical details about its phones and then to force it out of business by withholding payments, according to documents filed at Texarkana County Court in Texas.

They add that Sendo believes Microsoft passed its secrets to Taiwan

[Interscope]

quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
MICORSOFT CAN NOT BE TRUSTED.

That's the reason that microsoft is involved in "anti-trust" cases =P

[dot.this]

Does anyone remember the last time MS included Java?

They started altering it so it was incompatible with Sun's version, so Sun pulled their license. What's to stop them from doing that again?

[mobrien_12]

Actually, Sun didn't pull their liscence.  The lawsuit was about proprietary, Windows only extensions that MS added and called Java.  The courts ordered MS to remove the proprietary extensions.  

And of course, MS acted like MS.