Well, if you have a taste for bad news there's plenty out there:
Sun wins the first round. Some think legal trouble has no impact on MSFT's shareprice - I disagree.
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<<Java case
Sun wins first ruling vs. Microsoft
Last Update: 3:07 PM ET May 25, 1999 NewsWatch
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Several Microsoft Corp. products, including Windows 98, infringed Sun Microsystems Inc.' copyrights, a federal judge said in a nonbinding, tentative ruling on Tuesday.
However, the ruling -- issued by U.S. District Court in San Jose -- said that Microsoft (MSFT: news, msgs) can develop and distribute ''independently developed'' tools that do not comply with a contract with Sun (SUNW: news, msgs), so long as such products do not infringe any Sun copyright, patent or other intellectual property right.
The three-part ruling will be finalized -- and possibly changed -- after oral arguments scheduled in June.
Sun, based in Palo Alto, Calif., has tried to promote its programming language Java as a universal language that can be used with any form of software.
The company sued Microsoft, contending that the Redmond, Wash.-based computer company used its licensed version of Java to design a Windows-only form that was incompatible with rival software, in violation of a contract.>>
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