[BrokenPipe]

While Google is becoming or is already as bad as Microsoft this is not a good enough argument to excuse Microsoft for bullying the mobile market with the FAT patent.

I remember the J# lawsuit!

From wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J++ "Some observers have remarked that this was deliberate from Microsoft, in an attempt to at least slow the advance of Sun's Java technology."

[d0]

There are other patents involved. That is just the poster-boy for it.

I know an ex-J++ team member. The objective was to produce a Java IDE that didn't suck (do you remember 1996 Java)? Sun wouldn't license them the runtime, name and class libraries so they cloned it much like GCJ and GNU classpath did. Absolutely no one moans about that..

Despite being an ex Solaris cert guy, Sun screwed up literally everything from 1995 on. This was another thing.