someone else making the point on sun's "brilliance"

This story make a lot of good points I agree with. Sun managed to deal with MS every bit as well as Brer Rabbit's enemies dealt with him. No, no, don't throw me into the briar patch...

Sun spent several years in litigation with Microsoft for purposes of nullifying Microsoft's Java license. Vast sums of money (far more than $20 million) were spent on legal fees for purposes of trying to prevent Microsoft from using Java any longer. Sun declared a victory. Now Sun, having gotten a settlement forbidding Microsoft from further work on Java, is back in court. It's suing Microsoft again. It wants a court order forcing Microsoft to include the Virtual Machine in XP distributions.