[Discussioni] Newsscan

[Francesco Potorti`]

Non mi pare fosse già passata:

SUN SETTLES JAVA SUIT FOR $92 MILLION
      Eastman Kodak has accepted a $92-million offer by Sun Microsystems to 
settle a billion-dollar patent-infringement lawsuit over the Java 
programming language. A U.S. federal jury decided last Friday, after a 
three-week trial, that Java infringed on patents Kodak acquired when it 
bought Wang Laboratories' imaging software business for $260 million in 
1997. The night before the trial's damages phase, which was to begin 
Thursday, the companies ended their two-year-old battle in an out-of-court 
settlement. Without admitting or denying the allegations, Sun Microsystems 
said it will pay Kodak $92 million to settle all claims in the dispute. In 
exchange, Sun received a license for Java under all Kodak patents. (The 
Australian, 8 Oct 2004) rec'd from John Lamp
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,11009794%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html>