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This index deals with Comes vs Microsoft court exhibits which offer a glance at the history of Microsoft abuse. For a concise summary of some of the exhibits, see "Petition text - overview".

Contents 1 NetPC 2 Java 2.1 Exploring 2.2 Harming 2.3 Bill Gates' Personal Role 2.4 Articles 2.5 Posts of Interest

NetPC

See NetPC page.

Java

Exploring

• Bill Gates on the JAVA crisis (Exhibit PLEX0_6109)
• Surf the Java wave (Exhibit PX07871)
• Key platform challenges from Java and NC (Exhibit PLEX0_5852)
• IBM Confidential Java Strategy Update (Exhibit PX02712)
• Java Redacted (Exhibit PX04264)

Harming

• We have to avoid pure JAVA applications (Exhibit PLEX0_5879)
• Ben Slivka: how do we wrest control of Java away from Sun (Exhibit plex0_4482)
• A good tactic to tie java developers to windows (Exhibit PX09104)
• Jim Allchin: piss on Java (Exhibit PX02412)
• Microsoft terminates Sun's Java license (Exhibit PX02782)
• Microsoft on fighting the Java infestation (Exhibit PX02916)
• Microsoft Product Manager: “Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let’s move on and steal the Java language.”
• The Microsoft Java Language Council (Exhibit PX04258)

Bill Gates' Personal Role

• Bill Gates: I am hardcore on not supporting Suns Java (Exhibits plex0_2727 and plex0_2710)
• Bill Gates on how to cause a Java schism (Exhibit PLEX0_2727)
• Bill Gates: An ISV that writes to COR is just f*cked (Exhibit PLEX0_2759)

Articles

• Judge Likens Microsoft's Effect on Java to a Bang on the Knee
• Jinxed by Java

Posts of Interest

• Microsoft’s Nathan Myhrvold on How “to Freeze the Market at the OEM and ISV Level”
• Microsoft on “Embrace and Extend”, the “Windows API Franchise”
• Nathan Myhrvold/Bill Gates Use “Embrace and Extend” Against “Making it Easy for People to Do Competitive Operating Systems”
• Bill Gates Called “LUNIX” a Threat Back in 1997 (also covers Java)