Appeals Court Sides With Microsoft On Java

burgburgburg writes "Reuters reports that the three-member federal appeals court in Virginia ruled today the U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz erred when he ordered Microsoft to include Java with the Windows operating system. Fortunately, Dell and HP, the top 2 PC makers, have already decided to ship Java on the PCs that they sell. Apple, Red Hat and Lindows have also agreed to include Sun's Java." The ruling is available.

In related news..

[L. VeGas]

Three members of the federal appeals court have just purchased Ferraris.

Interesting company choices

[TWX]

"Apple, Red Hat and Lindows have also agreed to include Sun's Java."

That's like a couple of blue-collar labourers and a street bum giving their opinions on the G8 summit, right?

Challenge

[tomstdenis]

Find 10 suits who know the diff between MS and SUN Java and I'll give you 100$ [subject to my approval]

Tom

Duh...

[essdodson]

Come on Sun. Wake up, you're looking like SCO. Hey, so is your stock!

Re:Hate to say I agree, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, he pointed out the flaw in your argument. Time to pull out the name-calling strategy!

Re:even SCOTUS can be influenced

[Jim_Hawkins]

A federal appeals court is small potatoes compared to the Supremes.

Yeah...
BTW, how are Diana and her buddies doing now-a-days?

SIDE NOTE: You must be at least 40 years of age to appreciate this joke.

SIDE NOTE 2: You must also have a crummy sense of humor like I do to appreciate this joke. :-p

Re:actually,

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

I can say, and I am responsible for what I am saying, that these Java nerds have started to commit suicide under the walls of Microsoft. We will encourage them to commit more suicides quickly. I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never been a reality, this Java.

Re:it doesnt matter anymore

[dthable]

The Christina Aguilera (sp?) promo was a smart move in collaboration with Motorola

Ugh! I feel so dirty as a Java developer. Time to switch to .Net.

Re:actually,

[kenthorvath]

Yeah, I thought that was the case as well. Doesn't Apple have the only Java implementation that doesn't spawn a new VM for each new app? I can't remember what the terminology for it was.

Efficient, I think is the term you are looking for, perhaps also see good, nice, cost-effective, and elegant. Now as an excersise to the reader I leave you the task of assigning some terms to Microsoft products... (grin)...

I wonder how long...

[desau]

>Fortunately, Dell and HP, the top 2 PC makers, have >already decided to ship Java on the PCs that they >sell. I wonder how long it will be until Microsoft says to Dell and HP: "If you're going to include Sun's Java, you'll have to pay full retail for every copy of Windows you sell."

Re:Hate to say I agree, but...

[Gherald]

I mod you +6...

Is that like one of those D&D superweapons?