From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jul 4 17:55:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02429 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 17:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02422 for ; Sat, 4 Jul 1998 17:55:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA17246; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:24:45 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980705102445.L358@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:24:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Frank Pawlak , Wes Peters , jasone@canonware.com, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Microsoft's breaches of contract (was: FBSD license and multiple copyright holders) References: <199807040703.BAA02533@softweyr.com> <19980704165817.D358@freebie.lemis.com> <980704165941.ZM2483@darkstar.connect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <980704165941.ZM2483@darkstar.connect.com>; from Frank Pawlak on Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 04:59:41PM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Saturday, 4 July 1998 at 16:59:41 +0000, Frank Pawlak wrote: > On Jul 4, 4:58pm, Greg Lehey wrote: >> Now if there's one thing that *really* pisses me off, it's that nobody >> has stopped Microsoft from shipping Internet Exploder because it is in >> breach of contract. I would have hoped that Sun could say "ship it >> with correct Java, ship it without Java, or don't ship it". If they >> can't get that done, I don't see that they can help us in what is >> primarily a matter of recognition. >> >> Greg > > Greg, arn't Sun and Microsoft presently in litigation over this very issue? I > know that SUN has brought suit against Microsoft for their bastardising of > Java, and I think that it also relates to IE as well. Yes, that's exactly the point. What disappointed me was that they were not able to get an injunction stopping the delivery until it was conformant with the contract. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message