A simmering dispute.

Reports on legal battles between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft over the Java computer language. Details of Sun's suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant violated a licensing agreement by creating a version of Java that will run only on Windows-based personal computers; Microsoft's...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 346; no. 8056; pp. 67 - 69
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 2/21/1998
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Sumario:Reports on legal battles between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft over the Java computer language. Details of Sun's suit against Microsoft, claiming that the software giant violated a licensing agreement by creating a version of Java that will run only on Windows-based personal computers; Microsoft's countersuit claiming that Sun itself broke the contract by introducing a new Java dialect that does not work as well as the old.