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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Sun Microsystems, having sued Microsoft

Sun Microsystems, having sued Microsoft and stopped it from distributing Java, has now sued Microsoft for not distributing Java. This is entirely in keeping with Sun's desire to make Java a standard while failing to put it through the standards process, and with attacking Linux while taking over a Linux supplier, amongst other things. Apparently Sun's fundamentalist belief in network computing doesn't stretch quite far enough for it to understand that people who want Java can simply download it.

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