>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.
Sure, simple, fair, legal... and stupid.
Microsoft claims that companies will be hurt if Sun revokes its Java
license. The company that would be devasted will be... Sun.
With Java in Windows, Sun has access to 95%+ of the desktop market. If Java
is removed, Sun is left with a whopping 1% or so (the size of the UNIX
market).
That's why Sun is in a bad situation with Microsoft: they hate Microsoft,
but they must deal with Microsoft. They threaten Microsoft with lawsuits,
but they don't really want to win, they just want to push Microsoft into
cooperating. Microsoft is playing along with Sun in order to assimilate
Java.
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