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To: Paul Fiondella who wrote (30064)	1/26/2000 8:19:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (1) of 42771

Hello Paul, I need to reread the original lawsuit again, but one of the interesting facts in this case was the fact that Microsoft was "extending" Java with their own classes and "native methods". I believe that this was the root of Sun's issue ... since Microsoft would try to get developers to write to the Microsoft "extensions" and you would have a "superset" of Java that Sun would not be compatible with ... > What I find most interesting about this is the failure once again > of the Federal Courts to protect copyright. What they are saying is > that MSFT can modify Sun's JAVA source code. I believe it's more the extension that Sun was trying to prevent, and the judge seemed to think that this is ok. I big difference between contractual violation and copyright violation ... Again, I'd have to reread to be sure ... but as I recall this was the big issue with Visual Studio and the Microsoft Java products ... Scott C. Lemon

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