RSSSun, Microsoft Settle Differences
By David Worthington | Published April 4, 2004, 10:08 PM
Sun Microsystems and Microsoft have found peace - for price of 1.6 billion US dollars. Under the agreement Sun has agreed to settle all pending litigation against its once bitter rival, and the two industry giants will collaborate on ways to make their products work better in mixed environments.
As part of the agreement, Sun and Microsoft will enter into a 'covenant' not to sue each other over past patent violations, with a clause to extend that arrangement into the future. Tentatively, negotiations are set to sort out a sweeping patent cross-licensing agreement that would enable the companies to share technology by paying each other predetermined royalties.
Will MS continue to do this sort of "collaborative" "settlements" with all their competency? First Apple, then Corel, then Borland, and now Sun?
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|Finally.
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|Yeah, I believe this has finally taken a step in the right direction. The lawsuit that had forced Microsoft to no longer support msjava made lots of people upset from both sides, and this should draw support on both ends.
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|Does this mean that we can use Microsoft's old buggy JVM again? WooHoo!
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