> Was the words free ever used? I always thought that > money would transfer between the companies for the > use of each others technology.
It did: 1+ billion United States dollars were paid to Sun Microsystems by the Microsoft corporation. In return, both parties signed a cross-licensing agreement. As a side effect, both parties agreed not to further sue each other for use of those technologies or patent infringements. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org