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Judge to Microsoft: 120 Days to Add Java Or Else
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
January 16th 2003
Squeezing the beans out of Microsoft: Redmond has 4 months to put up or shut up.
Microsoft has been given 120 days by a federal judge to include a version of Sun's
Java to its Windows operating system, according to an Associated Press article.
The order was issued by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, after Sun had requested
the programming language be included with Windows within 90 days. Microsoft,
conversely, has asked for a phased introduction over a 180-day period.
Judge Motz agreed to some flexibility in issuing his order; Microsoft could request
more time, if good reasons were given; and a two-week stay was granted, as Microsoft
is expected to appeal to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Should the order be implemented, Microsoft would be obliged to release Sun's Java with
a Windows XP Service Pack 2.
The reason for the Sun-MS dispute is Redmond's use of old Java code, thus obviating
the need to pay Sun for more recent incarnations of Java. AOL-Time Warner's Netscape,
for example uses the more recent version of Java.
Microsoft has deployed its own version of Sun's older Java, most notably with its
.Net initiative. Sun claims that MS's use of the older Java standard is reinforced by
its Windows monopoly.
Analysis: No prizes for guessing MS will appeal. Again, MS uses its leverage as an
upstream company, pure and simple, to leverage uses - and revenues - away from its
competitors and avoid licensing fees. Licensing is what MS and Gates know all about:
it's how they made their money, not selling chintzy programs like Excel.
Be nice to see them lose for once though. But on the flip side, winning so often has
certainly increased the number, and class, of Microsoft's enemies.
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