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What helped Sun to protect themselves from legal claims Apple and Microsoft

Jonathan Schwartz, former head of Sun Microsystems, in the light of the patent suit against Apple of HTC said in his blog about the past attempts to organize Apple patent proceedings against the Sun. According to Jonathan, Steve Jobs has threatened legal action, after the release in 2003 of a new 3D-Interface Project Looking Glass, arguing that the use of graphic effects on the desktop violates intellectual property rights of Apple and if Sun will try to commercialize the Project Looking Glass, Apple certainly will give claim.

In response to the statement by Steve Jobs, Jonathan Schwartz indicated for use in the latest Steve Jobs’ presentation, the interface is very similar to the product of Concurrence for NeXTSTEP, was constructed by Lighthouse Design, purchased by Sun in 1996. Also, Jonathan Schwartz hinted that Mac OS X is built on Unix-technology, and Sun on the case is laid up several Unix-related patents. Similar statements were enough to Apple will no longer worried about the Sun.

Since Microsoft had a very similar situation: Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer met with key senior managers of Sun has claimed a violation of a number of Microsoft patents in OpenOffice.org, in fact, Gates said straight out that Microsoft owns the market for office applications and patents cover a technology company OpenOffice, license to use, and which offered to buy Sun. In response, Jonathan Schwartz, clearly hinted at the similarity of some elements. NET and Java. Once Microsoft was invited to start paying royalties for every copy of Windows, which violated a huge number of Java-related patents, the debate has stopped, and Microsoft in the future, not try to impose licensing its technologies.

10 March 2010

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