Maybe I'm thinking too simplistic here, but any time one company offers a
distribution license to another, if they also retain the right to revoke
it. Size of the distributing company should not matter. Breach the
contract, lose the license. Simple, fair and legal.
Personally, I refuse to use Java. Other than doing heavy graphics without
clearing the cache between projects, Java is the only "program" that causes
the error "You don't have enough system resources to perform this task".
I've had 3 motherboards and multiple memory configurations inthe past year
and the results are always the same - Java remains shut off. Until they
make Java clear itself out of memory, it won't be used here.
Or am I missing some "big picture"?
Jim
At 04:26 AM 9/10/98 -0700, Richard Winter shared with us:
>08:22 PM ET 09/08/98
>
>Microsoft sees significant harm if Sun wins order
>
> By Therese Poletti
> SAN JOSE, Calif., Sept 8 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. would
>suffer significant harm if rival Sun Microsystems Inc. wins a
>court order against the software company over Sun's Java
>programming language, a Microsoft executive testified Tuesday.
> Sun is seeking a preliminary injunction in U.S.
>District Court here that would stop Microsoft from
>shipping copies of its Windows 98 operating system with Java
>technology that Sun says fails to meet its licensing
>requirements. Using Java, programmers can write applications
>that run on any kind of computer system.
> An injunction would have a serious impact on Microsoft and
>thousands of other companies worldwide, said Robert Muglia,
>senior vice president of Microsoft's applications and tools
>group.
> "The impact is serious to Microsoft," Muglia testified in
>the first of three days of hearings in a suit brought by Sun.
>Sun executives are scheduled to testify on Wednesday.
> Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun sued Microsoft in October for
>breach of contract, alleging the company was not delivering a
>version of Java in its Windows-based software compatible with
>the language that Sun developed and thus defeating its "write
>once, run anywhere" goal.
> Since the commercialization of Java in 1995, Sun has sought
>to make sure that all versions of Java are compatible and
>offers a "Java compatible" logo for programs that pass tests.
> Sun licensed Java to Microsoft in 1996, but for the past
>two years, the two companies have been sparring over whose
>implementation of the language is "pure" or "compatible."
> Besides the impact an injunction would have on Microsoft,
>it also would affect software developers using the technology.
> Muglia said Microsoft's implementation of Java is part of
>its Windows operating systems, Internet Explorer and about 20
>products that also are translated into many languages around
>the world. Adding together all the different versions and
>languages, several hundred products would be affected by an
>injunction, he said.
> "In the case of Windows, it is particularly painful because
>it is distributed by companies like Compaq, Hewlett-
>Packard...," Muglia said. "There are literally thousands of
>companies around the world who distribute Windows."
>
>
>
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