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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, November 19, 1998
Nation/World
Microsoft forced to alter software
Judge rules in favor of Sun Microsystems
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Microsoft Corp. has been ordered to rewrite parts of the Windows 98 operating system that contain an altered version of the Java programming language that is incompatible with its rivals' software.
The order Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Ronald Whyte also forces the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant to change Internet Explorer 4.0 and other Java-incorporating software, or stop shipping the products within 90 days.
Whyte also wrote that the lawsuit filed by Sun Microsystems Inc. — which originally designed Java — had merit and should be tried in court.
sun claims Microsoft failed to adhere to terms of a 1995 licensing agreement between the two companies. Under that agreement, Microsoft in 1997 began including Java in programs such as Windows 98 and Internet Explorer. But in doing so, it tinkered with the language, effectively creating a Windows-only form of Java that would not work on competitors' operating systems. Conversely, standard Java will not work with Microsoft's systems and software.
Sun originally created Java as a
"universal" language that offered software developers the capability to write a program once and have it run on any number of computer operating systems.
Microsoft claimed its rewritten version simply improved Java, but Sun and some others in the industry said it was an attempt to "pollute" the programming language that challenged Microsoft's dominance and ultimately posed a financial threat to Microsoft.
Whyte's order — which does not involve software that already has been shipped or sold — will not affect most computer users. But the modifications are a windfall for people who program computers, allowing them more flexibil-
itv in the systems they use.
The ruling sends a message to the computer industry that Microsoft's strength can be challenged — at least temporarily — in court.
Paul Maritz, vice president for Microsoft's platforms and applications group, said new shipments of Windows 98 would be modified to comply with the order. He would not estimate the cost of changing the software, other than to say it was "non-trivial" but "well within our capabilities."
Palo Alto-based Sun sued Microsoft last October, seeking the changes and $35 million in damages.
House Republicans endorse Livingston as speaker
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WASHINGTON — House Republicans endorsed Rep. Bob Livingston yesterday to succeed Newt Gingrich as speaker and began picking the rest of their leaders for the coming Congress as the rattled GOP looked to recover from an election that left it clinging to a 12-seat House majority.
Livingston, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, was chosen by voice vote in a closed-door meeting of the 223 House Republicans who will serve in the 106th Congress. With the backing of the majority party, the Louisiana lawmaker is assured election to the job when the new House convenes Jan. 6.
Livingston was unopposed in his bid to become leader of the chamber's Republicans and No.2 in the constitutional line of succession to President Clinton, behind Vice President Al Gore.
House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas
was not so fortunate. Three colleagues were challenging Armey — Reps, Jennifer Dunn of Washington, Steve Largent of Oklahoma and J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois.
The leadership elections followed two weeks of intense behind-the-scenes campaigning by candidates for the jobs, and in some cases months of preparation.
"The recent election did not mark a turning away from the Republican Party," Livingston said in accepting the nomination. "But we did fail. ... We didn't run out of ideas. We simply neglected to run on our ideas."
Gingrich: Said Nov.
6 that he would
resign from post.
He said House Republicans would not betray their philosophy but would lose nothing by
reaching out to the other side.
The 55-year-old Livingston will succeed Gingrich, a Georgian who astonished his colleagues Nov. 6 by announcing that he would retire from his post and from Congress. Three days earlier, Election Day saw the GOP lose five House seats, dashing hopes for big Republican pickups and dashing GOP lawmakers blaming their leaders.
Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois said Gingrich spoke briefly at the start of yesterday's meeting and called Livingston to the podium, handed him a gavel and said, "Your success as speaker will in large measure be whether people in this room stand together and stand united."
Livingston, a 21-year House veteran, is a conservative known less for ideology than for pragmatism and has already vowed to be a manager who will work with Democrats. His ascension comes as Republicans search for a way to broaden their appeal to voters and heal rifts between the party's ideological social conservatives and its more pragmatic moderates.
WASHINGTON — House Judiciary Committee Republicans are making clear they won't allow President Clinton's defenders to turn the first impeachment hearing into a trial of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's tactics.
But Clinton's spokesman said yesterday that as the process begins, it appears Republicans are off on an unfair, unconstitutional "partisan adventure."
In a sterely worded letter, Committee Chairman Henry Hyde told Clinton's attorneys they would not get any more than 30 minutes to question Starr at today's hearing, rejecting a White House request to expand the time to 90 minutes.
Hyde also told the White House it would not be allowed to question Starr about the various controversies surrounding his investigation, such as a judge's inquiry into whether prosecutors leaked grand jury material.
"You will not be permitted to inquire into other matters not bearing on the question of impeachment." Hyde wrote in a letter late Tuesday. "Efforts to utilize these proceedings as a forum to inquire about non germane matters, such as investigations into the conduct of the investigation, that are pending before other bodies, shall not be permitted."
But the White House said the GOP rules were not fair at all.
Speaking to reporters moments
before Clinton left for Asia, White House press secretary Joe Lockhart complained that Republicans were seeking to muzzle the president's defenders while attempting to broaden their investigation beyond its allegations of perjury about a sexual affair.
"They have rediscovered all of their old bad habits, and since they don't like where it's going, they're going to try to find something else," Lockhart said.
White House denied lengthy Starr inquiry
"There's a certain note of hyporysis here, which, when it's unmasked, is that 'we can talk about anything we want,' he said. He called it "fundamentally unfair and disturbing."
white House lawyers had insisted they needed 90 minutes to cross-examine Starr. Democrats claim Starr's conservatism has colored his four-year, multifaceted investigation of Clinton and his referral to Congress detailing 11 possibly impachable offenses, including perjury and obstruction of justice, involving the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
meanwhile, Judiciary Committee Republicans expect to receive Clinton's answers to their 81 questions about the president's conduct to land on Capitol Hill as soon as today, sources close to the panel said.
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