Sun: trial set for Kodak suit over Java

Sun Microsystems was unable to reach a settlement in a patent suit brought by Kodak relating to Sun's Java software, and the case now is scheduled to go to trial Sept. 15, the server maker said in a regulatory filing Friday.

Sun also revealed purchase details of its acquisition of Nauticus, a company that developed hardware for server security, virtualization and load-balancing tasks. The purchase price was $12 million, a figure that Sun didn't disclose when it acquired the company in January

Kodak owns everything we do

Unbelievably, the patent office let things get so far out of hand Kodak now has a patent on object oriented programming, an operating system that can run that.

Java is both, the language is OO and it infringes the first patens. Java is also it's own platform and therefore infringes the patent on operating systems that can run OO. Guess the JVM is an O/S now.

I can't quite make out the third patent. Is that the visitor pattern? Maybe the GOF should be sued.

I'm wondering how many more technologies have lurking patent holders waiting to pounce on them after it gets successful. If you can't succeed, then leech the blood from those who can?

That's the LAST I'm buying anything relating to Kodak. If they are acting just like SCO now, they are out of the picture. I urge others to do the same.