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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems Wikipedia: Sun Microsystems] | * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems Wikipedia: Sun Microsystems] | ||
* [http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/software_patent_sun.htm Sun's 1994 patent position] | * [http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/software_patent_sun.htm Sun's 1994 patent position] | ||
| + | * [http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/709519/000119312504155723/dex10109.htm A 2004 patent deal regarding StarOffice/OpenOffice.org], signed with [[Microsoft]] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 12:20, 25 November 2009
(NOTE: Sun Microsystem is in the process of being bought by Oracle. This page will probably remain after the merger.)
Sun Microsystems inc. (Sun) is a hardware and software company that has fought against software patents.
Paying Kodak for nothing
Sun paid $92 million to Kodak for protection against patents that Kodak claimed were being infringed by Sun's Java software.[1][2] Kodak originally asked for $1 billion.[3]
Paying IBM for nothing
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.[4]
External links
- Wikipedia: Sun Microsystems
- Sun's 1994 patent position
- A 2004 patent deal regarding StarOffice/OpenOffice.org, signed with Microsoft
