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Whats all the fuss about with respect to Microsoft and Sun?

April 26, 2017fuss Microsoft respect Sun

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Whats all the fuss about with respect to Microsoft and Sun?

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‘Tis a complicated story, but in layman’s terms: when Sun licensed the Java source code to Microsoft to allow them to build a JVM for the Windows platform, Microsoft modified it a little to have greater access to some of the Windows-specific components. This modification broke the WORA philosophy and to that end, Sun felt it was no longer Java and wanted Microsoft to restore their JVM to be 100% compliant. Microsoft didn’t feel the same. Hence the court case.