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> Either what Google is doing is horrible or what Microsoft did shouldn't have been a problem Maybe go reread about the case? It was basically breach of contra
by magicalist 10y ago
> Either what Google is doing is horrible or what Microsoft did shouldn't have been a problem
Maybe go reread about the case? It was basically breach of contract and thus quite different.
The basis of Sun's lawsuit was that Microsoft had a license to implement Java™ and part of that license was the requirement that their version would be compatible as defined by the compatibility test suite.
In their attempt to "kill cross-platform Java" they failed to be compatible and so Sun sued and won.
- saurik 10y agoHuh! So, there were multiple rounds of lawsuits, and I will admit I missed this (very important) detail of the part that Microsoft actually lost. I think it is still important to note, however, that the main reason any of these companies actually ended up in contracts with Sun was due to Sun's claims to ownership over the language standard itself, and there is some really great phrasing about Sun's feelings on this in this contemporary article from the Wall Street Journal. But again: you are absolutely right about what is different, and I am sorry for not noticing this before :(. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB876241941809073500 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB876241941809073500