Author: Andrew Dados
Date: 19:06:15 12/10/03
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On December 10, 2003 at 18:18:32, Eelco de Groot wrote: >On December 10, 2003 at 03:18:22, margolies,marc wrote: > >>This is in order to comply with a settlement of the suit with Sun about Java. >>ref slash-dot ref msnbc.com > >I read on ComputerWeekly.com >( >http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=127130&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=6&liChannelID=1&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1 >) > >"The full list of products that Microsoft will retire from the channel as of 15 >December are: Office XP Developer; Visio 2000; BackOffice Server 2000; Office >2000 Developer; Office 2000 Tools; Office 2000 Multilingual; Office 2000 Premium >SR-1; Office 2000 Service Pack 2; Outlook 2000; Project 2000; SQL Server 7; SQL >Server 7 Service Pack 3; Embedded Visual Tools 3.0; Visual Studio 6 MSDE; >Internet Explorer 5.5; MapPoint 2002; Visual Studio 6.0 SP3 and SP5; Windows 98; >Windows 98 Y2K; Windows 98 Resource Kit; Windows 98 SP1; Windows NT 4.0 Terminal >Server and Option Pack and Visual Basic for Alpha Systems." > > >This is of course a disgrace! Didn't Microsoft have enough money to buy from Sun >the rights to use that stuff which it seems they stole from Sun in the first >place? Didn't we pay for this software? Shouldn't we get our money back then? >The article on Computer Weekly has this nice sentence: "Although the products >will no longer be available in the channel or for download from Microsoft's >Developer Network (MSDN), existing users will still be able to use them." > >)#$%^$%@& incredible! Microsoft graciously *allows* you to use your software, >after they stole half of the code from another company, practically forcing >their operating system etc. upon you when you buy a computer and after >undoubtedly planning to terminate all further support of it, because for once >they could not countersue in a courtcase. > > Eelco It is not that they 'stole' java, lawsuit was about MS java implementation being incompatible with sun specifications. -Andrew-
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