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Sun Wins, Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
 12/23/2002 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc. won a major antitrust victory against Microsoft Corp. on Monday when a federal judge ordered Microsoft to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its Windows operating system. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz said he would grant the preliminary injunction sought by Sun to level the playing field between the Java write-once, run-anywhere software and Microsoft's new .NET Internet services strategy. Sun and Microsoft have been arguing over Java's inclusion in Microsoft's operating system for years, with Sun charging that Microsoft tried to sabotage Java by dropping it from Windows XP, which was introduced last year. Microsoft later reversed itself and said it would start including Java in a Windows XP update, but only until 2004 when the feature would be dropped. Motz said there was a "substantial" likelihood the court will impose the "elegantly simple remedy" of making Microsoft's software support Java, to prevent Microsoft's past wrongs from giving it an advantage in the battle for Internet-based computing. The decision by Motz in the private antitrust suit revives a tough sanction against Microsoft that was rejected by another federal judge in the separate landmark government antitrust case against the world's biggest software company. "I further find it is an absolute certainty that unless a preliminary injunction is entered, Sun will have lost forever its right to compete, and the opportunity to prevail, in a market undistorted by its competitor's antitrust violations," Motz said in the 42-page opinion. Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said the company will ask for an appeal of the ruling on an expedited basis. "Clearly we're disappointed with today's ruling and still need to review the details of the court's decision," Desler said. News Archive | |
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