Another legal blow to Sun and Java, Microsoft wins
C|Net | at | by Mike
A federal appeals court dealt a legal setback to Sun Microsystems on Thursday, tossing out most of a preliminary injunction requiring Microsoft to carry its rival's version of an interpreter for the Java programming language.
But the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., upheld a requirement that Microsoft cease distributing certain copies of its own Java virtual machine (VM), saying that the company "exceeded the scope" of a January 2001 license agreement with Sun. The three-judge panel said the agreement only gives the company the right to include its own Java VM in Windows--not to offer it separately through computer makers or through Windows Update, which Microsoft stopped doing in February.