[News] Sendo Sues Microsoft | ANN.lu |
Posted on 23-Dec-2002 22:16 GMT by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | 59 comments View flat View list |
Sendo today confirmed that it has filed a suit against Microsoft in a US federal suit, accusing the software giant of stealing its technology and customers. --The Register
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Posted by Gregg on 24-Dec-2002 18:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 36 (Fabio Alemagna): Fabio, I think this is another case of things seldom being as simple as they might appear.
First, MS has been clearly identified as a monopolist; different rules apply to monopolists.
Secondly, MS has a long-standing agreement with Sun to implement and support Java; Sun just wants them to support the Java standard, not MS's just-a-little-incompatible implementation of Java.
I'm sure you can work out why MS's Java is different, and why Sun (and pretty much everybody else) thinks that standards are standards, and are happy to see this concept enforced.
Finally, don't for a moment think that Sun are the only people who can make money off Java; it is a standard that everybody can benefit from - and that's MS's peeve, since "everybody" is the enemy to their way of thinking.
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