>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Raber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> I don't have an issue with Sun covering the costs of sponsoring the
> standardization activity (cost of doing business).
But how can they come up with what the actual costs of "standardization"
are?
> But the water is muddied when they compete with their partners with their
> own commercial J2EE server offerings.
Indeed! Isn't this (part of) precisly the problems MS is having in the
anti-trust case? I.e., the internal folks getting unfair advantage?
> Seems to me the standardization and branding should be done be a separate
> legal entity.
Do you think that requires a "formal" standards organization like ISO or do
you think that a Sun spin-off which isolated the Java standards from Sun
would be sufficient or what?
Thanks,
John
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