Judge asks Sun tough questions
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
U.S. District Court Judge Frederick Motz questioned whether the preliminary injunction requested by Sun -- forcing Microsoft to carry Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on every copy of Windows and Internet Explorer -- would give Sun an unfair competitive advantage.
"I came into this asking ... if you've got the better product why do you need the remedy?" Motz asked. He noted that U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly had "vehemently" denied a similar request in her antitrust settlement ruling for the U.S. government's case on Nov. 1.
Tulchin cited a Sun internal document saying that Java could reach the majority of PCs if the company spent $4 million a year with OEMs, a small amount of money for a company that had about $12.5 billion in sales in its last fiscal year.