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 A federal judge stepped in on Wednesday to referee a simmering dispute between Microsoft and Sun Microsystems over a court order that Microsoft start distributing Sun's Java programming language in its Windows operating system. 
U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz summoned the two rival software makers to a meeting in federal court in Baltimore the day after Sun accused Microsoft of undermining Motz's order to include Java in Windows. 
 
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