Post #149,784
4/2/04 9:49:10 AM
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Sun settles with MS for $2bn
[link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/36770.html|http://www.theregist...ent/53/36770.html] Sun Microsystems and Microsoft are to stop sueing each other for ten years, in a settlement which will see Sun trouser almost $2bn.
The bitter rivals have signed a technology collaboration pact to get their products to work better together; and they have settled all outstanding litigation. They have also come to terms on patents and "other issues". Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #149,785
4/2/04 9:52:49 AM
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Cheap way to get Sun out of EU antitrust actions...
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Post #149,797
4/2/04 11:43:18 AM
8/21/07 6:39:13 AM
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So much for the entertainment value
of McNeally's keynotes. All his jokes were at MS expense.
I'd bet that a cease and desist on that front is part of the deal.
Java is a joke, only it's not funny.
--Alan Lovejoy
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Post #149,798
4/2/04 11:44:26 AM
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Never.
Scott would never give up that part.
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'In view of the fact that Microsoft is a condemned monopolist and on the other hand the internal messages and financial transactions of SCO look ever doubtful, Microsoft should be really anxious that to the own company something does not remain sticking from the Gestank of the SCO.' --Plagarized from [link|http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040322133607169|GROKLAW]
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Post #149,900
4/3/04 10:07:24 PM
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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Both of these turkeys (Microsoft and Sun) have been giving money to SCO. They both see their futures threatened by Linux.
The two "making nice" is not a good thing.
Alex
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." -- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
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Post #149,901
4/3/04 10:08:16 PM
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windows on sparc? Great, BSD's faster and more often
"You're just like me streak. You never left the free-fire zone.You think aspirins and meetings and cold showers are going to clean out your head. What you want is God's permission to paint the trees with the bad guys. That wont happen big mon." Clete
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Post #149,944
4/4/04 3:34:18 AM
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The enemy of my enemy . . .
. . is my enemy's enemy, nothing more.
I doubt Sun and Microsoft will trust each other half as far as they can throw each other.
[link|http://www.aaxnet.com|AAx]
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Post #149,964
4/4/04 12:19:38 PM
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The scary part
is if Sun and Microsoft share technologies and do what they can to knock out Linux. Like Sun creating StarOffice with features found from MSOffice for Solaris only, and no Linux port.
Also both teaming up with SCO to battle Linux would not be a good thing either.
"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"
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Post #149,988
4/4/04 3:30:57 PM
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OpernOffice is the norm
Not StarOffice.
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Post #150,026
4/4/04 9:57:51 PM
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But, it's good to see some Sun guys have principles.
From the Register: The first major fallout from Sun's capitulation to Microsoft has occurred with vice president and [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/36780.html|Java defender Rich Green quitting Sun] in "disgust," The Register has confirmed.
Green, Sun's vice president of developer platforms and the major public voice for Java, left the company on the same day that Sun announced it had declined to pursue lawsuits against Microsoft, according to sources. During the US Microsoft antitrust trial, Green was one of Sun's key witnesses, arguing that Microsoft tried to undermine Java by shipping an incompatible version of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Alex
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." -- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
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