Court to hear Microsoft bid to reverse Java ruling
Reuters | at | by Mike
Lawyers for Microsoft will be back in court on Thursday hoping to convince an appeals court to reverse an order forcing the company to carry Sun Microsystems Java programming language in the Windows operating system. A three-judge panel in Richmond, Va. will hear arguments from Microsoft and Sun over whether it should uphold a Java "must-carry" order imposed by a lower court judge in December.
Microsoft is hoping to persuade the judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that the "must-carry" order is "unprecedented, unnecessary and doesn't serve the public interest," Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said. "We're going to make the point that this hasn't been done before," Desler said.