Sun’s legal representative, Mike Morris, explained that the deal
houses “all sorts of outs and loopholes and vagaries and lack of
definitions.” As a result, Sun worries that Microsoft will exploit
these loopholes to operate uncompetitively towards Sun and other
rivals. The deal was intended to avoid such concerns and curb
Microsoft’s powers by restricting the ways in which it can
prejudice competitors.
Morris added, “I can’t tell you what we will do, but I can
assure you that we will now move to active consideration and
decision about what to do.”
Sun’s cause for concern stems in part from a US Court of Appeals
case in June this year when Microsoft was found to have violated
antitrust laws by suppressing Sun’s Java programming language.
