ie: MS can see the forking as a way to break the Java platform. They already tried to make it some years ago and failed. But make some harm. Even Sun sued them for this.
The scenario is not easy:
If Java is divided, we lose.
I respectfully disagree. I think (some of) what Microsoft did with Java was good. In the long-run it may have hurt Java, but they dropped out before there were any problems.
Two points:
1. Early on, Microsoft wrote a much better JVM implementation. The Microsoft JVM 1.1 was much faster than Sun's win32 implementation at the time. I don't see anything wrong with that.
2. IMHO JDirect is better than JNI. JNI allows for 100% Java purity, but in the meantime Java is 7 years old, and it's still a huge pain to use ActiveX components. Python gets to be as the best glueware tool. I don't care about losing to C#... we're losing more ground to Python.
By doing a potential Java forking, MS can take advantage and make C# win. But, if Java is licensed under GPL it will be hard to make an intentional fork at all.
My ideas are posted in my too primitive english. I hope the point is clear now.
I think they come across well. I'm just in the camp that more competition is better, and that's why I like ASF licensing since it allows for more competition.
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