Re: MicroSoft forced to ship current Java?
Judge Likens Microsoft To Tonya Harding
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| The federal judge overseeing Sun Microsystems'
| request for an injunction against Microsoft Corp.
| compared the software giant's treatment of Sun to
| Tonya Harding's knee-capping attack on rival figure
| skater Nancy Kerrigan.
|
| U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz,
| thinking aloud from the bench, said
| there was a 'social value' in being able to
| participate fairly in a market
| undistorted by a competitor.
|
http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=38913
Microsoft ordered to carry Java
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| Sun wins preliminary injunction in private
| antitrust lawsuit Dec. 23 —
|
| A U.S. district court judge on Monday
| ordered Microsoft to include Sun Microsystems’
| version of Java with the Windows operating system,
| citing the software giant’s history
| of undermining the platform-neutral programming language.
| ...
| Andrew Gavil, a professor at Howard University
| who has followed the antitrust case closely,
| said that Judge Motz might have issued the
| injunction in part because he was persuaded by
| one of ___ Microsoft's major arguments ___
| before both himself and Judge Kollar-Kotelly:
| that it is impossible to measure whether nascent
| technologies like Java and Netscape would have
| evolved into a serious competitor to Windows. ...
|
| The ruling may also signal how Judge Motz may
| lean in a case he is overseeing filed by
| Netscape Communications, now owned by AOL Time Warner.
| The judge is also handling cases filed by Be Inc.
| and Burst.com, as well as cases filed by
| class-action lawyers suing on behalf of consumers.
|
http://www.msnbc.com/news/851208.asp
Microsoft Required to Carry Compliant Java ( full text )
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http://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/Opinions152/Opinions/SunPI1202.pdf
| Microsoft took other steps to interfere with cross-platform
| Java It "designed its Java developer tools to encourage
| developers to write their Java applications using certain
| 'keywords' and 'compiler directives' that could only be
| executed properly by Microsoft's version of the Java
| runtime environment for Windows. ...
|
| Microsoft planning memorandum for Java development tools
| confirms objective: "Kill cross-platform Java by grow [sic]
| the polluted Java market") .
|
| In those and other ways, the court found that
| Microsoft took anticompetitive steps to discourage
| developers from creating Java applications compatible
| with non-Microsoft JVMs.
|
|
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f7200/7230.htm#statofCC2c
| Why does Java not work in Cortona in Netscape 6?
|
| Netscape 6 does not support Java for the plug-ins
| which were created for Netscape 4.x.
|
| This means that Java functionality is unavailable in Cortona.
|
http://www.parallelgraphics.com/products/cortona/faq/
| We continue to use ___ CosmoPlayer ___ since
|
| ___ no other ___ browser companies properly support
|
| standards-compliant Java + VRML functionality.
|
| Internet Explorer is __ not __ yet compatible
| due to a completely different security model for
| signing applets to gain network access.
|
| NPS is purchasing Verisign certificate-signing
| software since all of the open noncommercial applet
| signing methods have tested and do not work together.
|
| ...
| authors: Don Brutzman and Don McGregor
|
http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/vrtp/dis-java-vrml/ReleaseNotes.txt
| Don Brutzman
|
| Naval Postgraduate School
| Monterey California USA
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|
http://web.nps.navy.mil/~brutzman/
Tim Tyler wrote:
In comp.lang.java.programmer Andrew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anybody ("paging P. Flavin..") provide further info?
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=microsoft+sun+java currently has details.
comp.lang.java.advocacy has much discussion of the ruling.
Web3d.org's VRML based H-Anim Avatars can be animated
in a browser ( Mozilla, Microsoft's Internet Explorer etc. )
with Java3d using the Sun VRML Loaders with Sound and
Gesture Animations triggered by user mouse actions on
TouchSensors without certificates on Windows and Linux
with Current & Compliant Java VMs ( I'm not sure about the
combination of Explorer on Linux, I've seen it but it
isn't a popular combination ).
Java3d & VRML works in a browser with Current & Compliant Java VMs
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http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/vrml_loaders_working.html
http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/java3d_and_vrml.html
-- Paul, Java Developer & Web Animator
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"Imaging the Imagined: Modeling with Math & a Keyboard"
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