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Judge likes idea of bringing Java to Windows OS
Judge Frederick Motz, who is considering the Sun Microsystems lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation , at the first hearing after hearing the parties' lawyers, made it clear that the inclusion of Java in the Windows operating system seemed to him an "attractive" solution to the dispute.
Sun Microsystems Corp. filed the lawsuit after an appeals court overturning District Judge Jackson's decision to split Microsoft in two upheld his finding that Microsoft was anti-competitive. Sun has consistently accused Microsoft of including a Java Virtial Machine in its operating system that is not fully compatible with Sun's original version of Java, thus forcing Java developers to choose between Sun's version and Microsoft's version. programming environment With the advent of the .Net , a direct competitor to Java, Microsoft began to force Java out of the market. Microsoft initially announced that it intended to remove Java from Windows XP, but later changed its mind and decided to ship its version of Java with the OS until 2004. Sun is now demanding that Microsoft ship the original version of Java with Windows XP.
Microsoft's lawyers argue that this requirement is an attempt by Sun to win the market at the expense of someone else's product (that is, the Windows OS). However, according to some indications, this requirement seems reasonable to Judge Motsu. Redmond's lawyers point out that nine states that did not originally sign the agreement between the US Department of Justice and Microsoft also demanded the forcible inclusion of Java in Windows, but Judge Colin Kollar-Cotelli did not support this demand. Judge Motz, however, stated that Judge Kollar-Kotelli's decision was not his order.