Sun Imposes Java Royalty

Posted by Roblimo on Thursday December 16, 1999 @08:40AM from the learning-from-Microsoft's-playbook dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A '3% branding fee for every product sold and labeled as J2EE compliant' is Sun's newest vision of fundraising, which has been the logical consequence of their last action - to withdraw Java from Standards Process. Read the ZDNet story and to see Sun's next step to squeeze the milk out of the java cup."

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