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| − | {{navbox}}'''Sun Microsystems inc.''' ('''Sun''') was a hardware and software company that has fought against [[software patents]]. '''It was bought out by [[Oracle]] in 2010.''' This will be kept to document the great work that Sun did in campaigns against software patents.
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| − | Sun signed a 10-year non-agression deal with [[Microsoft]] in 2004. (see [[Patent non-aggression pacts]])
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| − | ==Paying Kodak for nothing== | |
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| − | Sun paid $92 million to [[Kodak]] for protection against patents that Kodak claimed were being infringed by Sun's Java software.<ref>http://blogs.sun.com/Gregp/entry/are_software_patents_useful</ref><ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/04/kodak_wins_java/</ref> Kodak originally asked for $1 billion.<ref>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/07/kodak_sun_settle/</ref>
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| − | ==Paying IBM for nothing==
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| − | In the 1980s, when [[IBM]] accused Sun of violating seven patents, Sun examined the patents and argued that IBM didn't have a case. The reply of IBM's lawyers was "''maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?"'' And Sun paid out.<ref>http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/0624/044.html</ref> This is another example of why [[invalid patents remain unchallenged]].
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| − | ==External links==
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| − | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems Wikipedia: Sun Microsystems]
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| − | * [http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/software_patent_sun.htm Sun's 1994 patent position]
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| − | * [http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/709519/000119312504155723/dex10109.htm A 2004 patent deal regarding StarOffice/OpenOffice.org], signed with [[Microsoft]]
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| − | * [http://blogs.sun.com/Gregp/entry/are_software_patents_useful Are Software Patents Useful?], by Sun blogger Greg Papadopoulos, May 2007
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| − | * [http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/ Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal], by Jonathan Schwartz about patent threats from [[Apple]] and [[Microsoft]]
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| − | ==References==
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