Bill Gates and Steve Jobs wanted to sue Sun

[arockwell]

No new information in this article. Its just a rehashing of Jonathan Schwartz's blog entry: http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...

[nkassis]

This is one really good reason why google should have gone after sun. 8 billion for the patent portfolio of Sun is a bargain. It might not be IBM's patent chest but it's pretty darn big too and varied.

[naz]

Maybe Microsoft approached Sun about licensing for OpenOffice as a preemptive strike about the .NET patent infringement, and got exactly what they wanted.

[tedunangst]

... says former Sun exec who no longer works there.

[nkassis]

This sounds like a group of bullies in a schools playground.

[wicknicks]

"there's no defence like an obvious offense" -- Sweet!

[wallop]

Makes them sound like a bunch of squabbling children.

[nfnaaron]

With billion dollar toys that they will take and go home with if you don't play the way they want.

[marr]

Now that Oracle has these patents, what might we expect to see happen?