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Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday February 03, 2005 @08:52PM from the breaking-up-is-hard-to-do dept.

Jeebus writes "At an event in Sydney this week James Gosling questioned the technical relationship between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft in light of the antitrust demands of the European Union. Gosling also talks about reverse engineering, DMCA and collaboration with Microsoft with on identity management. "

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This is easy... (Score:4, Funny)

by AntiPasto ( 168263 ) writes: on Thursday February 03, 2005 @08:55PM (#11568443) Journal

... Microsoft has to let the Sun shine, or else they'd kill all their customers!

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Re:Best quote (Score:1, Funny)

by Sophrosyne ( 630428 ) writes: on Thursday February 03, 2005 @09:04PM (#11568502) Homepage

He must be a terar'ist!!! If you don't like America- LEAVE!

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Howdy (Unequal) Partner! (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday February 03, 2005 @09:25PM (#11568651)

In Republican America, Microsoft fucks YOU!

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Re:EULA, DMCA and Reverse Engineering. (Score:3, Funny)

by KarmaBlackballed ( 222917 ) writes: on Thursday February 03, 2005 @09:46PM (#11568765) Homepage Journal

You have a point about circumventing EULAs to reverse engineer protocols. Thank heaven the DMCA was created to plug that nasty loop-hole!

And it is a win-win. We win because now we can all rest easier knowing that big existing companies have less pressure to waste money on technical innovation. And companies also win because we taxpayers pay for DMCA enforcement through our federal tax dollars! (Or did I get the win-win backward, they win the first, we win on the second? Ahhh, forget it.)

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Re:EULA, DMCA and Reverse Engineering. (Score:4, Funny)

by complete loony ( 663508 ) writes: <Jeremy@Lakeman.gmail@com> on Thursday February 03, 2005 @10:10PM (#11568911)

... the fact that you'll get yourself in a heapload of trouble by observing something that was presented to you ...
Yeah I know what you mean. She was the one standing naked with the curtains open, I don't know what all the fuss was about.

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Re:More is Really Less (Score:3, Funny)

by flacco ( 324089 ) writes: on Thursday February 03, 2005 @10:23PM (#11568980)

Gates argued, however, that open source software encourages the proliferation of different software systems, making it harder to integrate them with other proprietary systems.
that's what open standards, file formats, and protocols are for - comp sci 101, you big fucking lying piece of shit goony bastard.

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Doesn't Make Sense... (Score:5, Funny)

by Comatose51 ( 687974 ) writes: on Thursday February 03, 2005 @11:04PM (#11569181) Homepage

Usually pacts with the devil take on greater significance as you get closer and closer to death (*cough* Sun *cough*)...

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Re:Best quote (Score:2, Funny)

by Macphisto ( 62181 ) writes: on Friday February 04, 2005 @03:22AM (#11570107) Journal

If I understand the moderation system correctly

Hmm.. given the current score of "0, Troll" for your comment, perhaps you do not understand the moderation system correctly.

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