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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Kintaro on 24 December 2002, 07:54

Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: Kintaro on 24 December 2002, 07:54
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) (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021223/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_sun_3), Reuters (via news.com) (http://news.com.com/2100-1001-978756.html?tag=fd_top), and, let's say, the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2602753.stm)


What are your thoughts on this...
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: voidmain on 24 December 2002, 08:04
That there are too many people submitting articles on /.?
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: Calum on 24 December 2002, 12:26
'Microsoft ordered to carry handguns' - "At least people will know they're a threat now" says Chief Justice.  :D
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: Kintaro on 24 December 2002, 15:28
Well i think its good, But they should stop Microsoft distributing Internet Explorer alltogether.
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: HibbeeBoy on 24 December 2002, 19:53
Her's an excert from the Edinburgh Evening News.

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

Two legal blows stun Microsoft


MICROSOFT, the world
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: jtpenrod on 25 December 2002, 01:44
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
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: Interscope on 25 December 2002, 03:52
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Originally posted by jtpenrod:
MICORSOFT CAN NOT BE TRUSTED.


That's the reason that microsoft is involved in "anti-trust" cases =P
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: dot.this on 17 January 2003, 00:05
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?
Title: Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
Post by: mobrien_12 on 17 January 2003, 01:50
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.