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Sun Wins, Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
by w1ld at 10:41 pm EST, Dec 23, 2002

] "Sun Microsystems Inc. (NasdaqNM:SUNW - news) won a major
] antitrust victory against Microsoft Corp. (NasdaqNM:MSFT
] - news) on Monday when a federal judge ordered Microsoft
] to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its
] Windows operating system.

Go Sun!

Sun Wins, Microsoft Ordered to Carry Java
by Decius at 2:05 am EST, Dec 24, 2002

While definitely good, this is just a prelim injunction, which primarily means that the damage done to Sun if they ultimately win by not having Java included during the trial process would be worse then the damage done to Microsoft if THEY ultimately win by having to include it. Given that the trial process is going to last several years, this much should be obvious.

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