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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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Economist Vol. 346; no. 8056; pp. 67 - 69
Format:	Article
Published:	Economist Newspaper Limited 2/21/1998
Subjects:	Java programming language Sun Microsystems Inc. Microsoft Corp. Actions & defenses (Law)
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost

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Summary:	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.