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Jon Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> <http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6839693.html?tag=mn_hd>
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I hate this!
"Sun called on consumers "to demand that Microsoft include the Java platform in
their XP operating system." Sun also said consumers should demand "PC vendors
like Dell, Compaq, Gateway, IBM and HP (Hewlett-Packard) include the Java
platform in their applications."
Why would we want yet ANOTHER proprietary application shipped as a standard on
an OS? It would be a different story if the JVM were OSS but guess what? It
isn't. Why would I want to help SUN increase their stranglehold over the
computer industry?
It seems to me that as soon as they OSS Java, all their problems will go away:
- - No more competition from .NET/C#. (why would anyone want to support an MS
proprietary language?)
- - If it were GPL/LGPL MS couldn't embrace and extend?
- - All the bugs that have been sitting in the JVM for *years* will finally get
fixed.
- - They don't have to spend the millions of dollars they spend on maintaining the
JVM.
- - Universal industry acceptance of Java.
- - Tons of cool stuff! :)
Of course SUN has done stupid things in the past. The Sourceware Operating
System Proposal ( http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/srcos.html ) being the most
striking. This is a brilliant document and is well worth the read.
Kevin
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Intellectual property does not exist! Get over it!
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