[geeks] Sun files suit against Microsoft

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 19:29, Keith Campbell wrote:
> > http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> >
> > -- Dave Kimmel
> 
> Several stories I've read elsewhere indicate that Sun is suing for $1B
> in damages because Windows XP doesn't ship with Java.
> 
> I'm going to play devils' advocate here so don't ban me from the list
> :-)
> 
>   1) you can download Java for windows from Sun's web site, so what does
> it matter if it is shipped with windows or not?

Well, what does it matter that you can download Netscape Communicator,
or Mozilla Communicator for free, and that they don't ship with
Windows?  If you buy into any of that Java hype, it's supposed to make
it so that you can write code, and ship compiled code, and it will work
on any platform.  If it can't work easily, "people aren't going to use
it."  Obviously, that doesn't apply to anybody on this list, as we never
take the easy way out.  

>   2) since Sun is giving it away, how can they claim damages?

They have to show lost revenues, or some such, that were caused by the
anti-competitive practices, or some other quantifiable losses.  Probably
won't be too hard, for people with as many lawyers as Sun.  :)
	Greg

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