Window Closed On Java

[Human_Error]

1:58 pm PST, 26 June 2003

Microsoft is no longer obliged to carry Sun's Java code in its Windows platform.


A federal appeals court today threw out a lower court decision which would have compelled the inclusion of the Sun programming language.

Although the decision is a significant victory for the software giant, the court upheld a decision that Microsoft was in breach of a 2001 legal settlement between the companies and had infringed Sun's copyright on Java.

The case now returns to the lower court for further proceedings.
http://www.7am.com/cgi-bin/catwire.cgi?BUSINESS_1000_2003062603.htm

[nosferatuscoffin]

I have been waiting quite a long time for this one. Not that I am a fan of Microsoft in any way. Hell when you have been using their OS's and apps for 15 years, you become convinved that Bill Gates truly is the Anti-Christ.

On the other hand, all of this legal wrangling needs to stop and MS is taking steps to clear out their legal "In" box first by settling with AOL and then getting this victory. As much as I dislike MS, I think even less of Sun. An arrogant company that with a equally arrogant CEO that produces a lot less than they are given credit for. Java, while certainly important, is the only significant PC app that they have ever really produced. Then again, that is not their area and forte. However, I found it VERY annoying that MS had to drop Java Virtual for wlel over a year whle all of this nonsense was going on. It made it a pain in the ass to get it on the two PC's that I upgraded to XP recently. Oh well. And so it goes.

[Rhino]

You forgot "overpriced".