ZFS License and Future

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sun Nov 7 00:13:44 UTC 2010


App Deb <appdebgr at gmail.com!appdebgr at agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Steven Susbauer <steven at too1337.com> wrote:
> > Sun was able to successfully sue Microsoft for similar reasons
> > in 1997 (incomplete implementation of the Java standard).
> If I remember correctly, the Microsoft Java VM was abandoned
> because of this and everyone had to switch to the Sun one.

My understanding was that M$ did not abandon their engine, but they
had to quit calling it Java(TM).  Didn't they just rename it to .Net?


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