Bill Gates and Steve Jobs wanted to sue Sun

No new information in this article. Its just a rehashing of Jonathan Schwartz's blog entry: <a href="http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/" rel="nofollow">http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis...</a>

Maybe Microsoft approached Sun about licensing for OpenOffice as a preemptive strike about the .NET patent infringement, and got exactly what they wanted.

... says former Sun exec who no longer works there.

This sounds like a group of bullies in a schools playground.

"there's no defence like an obvious offense" -- Sweet!

Makes them sound like a bunch of squabbling children.

Now that Oracle has these patents, what might we expect to see happen?