text: Sun and Kodak settle out of court As we reported previously, Kodak filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems claiming that the company had infringed on its patents by implementing  quot;ask for help quot; functionality in its Java programming language, which gave a huge boost to the company #39;s yearly 
inputs: Sun and Kodak settle out of court As we reported previously, Kodak filed a lawsuit against Sun Microsystems claiming that the company had infringed on its patents by implementing  quot;ask for help quot; functionality in its Java programming language, which gave a huge boost to the company #39;s yearly 