The second front.
On November 17, 1998, a federal judge in San Jose, California, ordered Microsoft to cease shipping its version of Java, an Internet software language owned by Sun Microsystems. The dispute involves a licensing agreement for Java, signed in 1996 by Microsoft and Sun. By October 1997, Sun had filed...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 349; no. 8095; pp. 64 - 66 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
November 21 1998
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