Microsoft asks court to set aside Java injunction
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft on Wednesday filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit asking it to set aside an injunction ordering Microsoft to offer Sun Microsystems' Java Runtime Environment with Windows XP and some versions of Internet Explorer. In the introduction to the brief, Microsoft vigorously attacks the earlier decision to grant an injunction.
"The mandatory preliminary injunction from which Microsoft appeals is unprecedented in the history of our [ U.S. ] antitrust laws," Microsoft wrote. "The district court intervened in what it called a 'new market' .... despite the fact that Microsoft is the new entrant in, and Sun now dominates, the alleged 'new market'."