Oracle/Sun couldn't sue MS for their VM because .NET has nothing do due with Java except some common high-level architectural strategies (bytecode/msil, GC, VM,

Oracle/Sun couldn't sue MS for their VM because .NET has nothing do due with Java except some common high-level architectural strategies (bytecode/msil, GC, VM, etc.) that neither company has exclusive claims on. In fact the .NET VM came about as a direct result of the fact that Oracle(Sun) did sue Microsoft for incompletely implementing the Java JDK under a license agreement between them, and MS had to abandon J++ and started work on C# to replace it. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1997/jw-10-lawsuit.html http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-1997/jw-10-lawsuit....