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Berin Loritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> --- Jon Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Lets see:
> >
> > Sun doesn't open Java so that M$ can do cool stuff
> > with Java and put them
> > out of business.
>
> Some of that stuff was cool, but it broke platform neutrality (hmm, familiar
> modus operandi). If M$ decided to make it _obvious_ that COM integration was
> a M$ specific feature instead of muddying the concept of what the proper API
> was, it wouldn't have been such a big deal.
This is a big worry for SUN. Of course if Java were GPL they wouldn't have to
worry about Microsoft's embrace and extend.
> > M$ attempts to do cool stuff with it anyway by
> > creating a clean room
> > implementation. Go M$!
>
> I don't mind a clean room implementation. I don't mind them trying to get a
> really fast VM. I just want to be assured software I write works in EVERY
> PLATFORM--with no mods.
Was it clean room??? I don't think it was! I think that MS *did* break their
agreement with SUN so they did have a right to sue.
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