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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems
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To: uu who wrote (14379)2/19/1999 2:31:00 PM
From: Mephisto  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
What is the problem here?

The court says that MSFT can only distribute " Java technologies developed independently of its rival Sun Microsystems Inc.

And MSFT cannot infringe upon SUN's Copyrights

"…….But the judge said that nothing in his clarification should be construed as authorizing Microsoft to distribute any product ''which infringes on Sun's copyrights or other intellectual property rights in Java technology, or that violate Microsoft's licensing agreement with Sun.''

MSFT HAS NOT WRITTEN THE CODE that would compete with JAVA

"The trade publication PC Week this week carried a report that Microsoft is considering the possibility of a new, rival language.

Microsoft officials have acknowledged conducting research on a project code-named ''Cool,'' but said no decisions have been made and no code has been written."

Why worry about Java-like code that has never been written and may never be written?

Since MSFT has not written "Cool", Addi, I am confused when you say:

"Microsoft has come up with a technology that utilizes its native proprietary windows features in a very easy and friendly manner. This technology which they call Java is in fact a superset of the real Java as defined by Sun and the Java community! However it does the job of writing native windows applications easier than ever before."

Best wishes,

Mephisto

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