[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Sun must make up its mind!! If Sun wants to compete with Microsoft, it
> should go head on. I don't think Sun or Java can win by going into the
> seclusion of the Open source. I think Sun must not do it! Keep Java
> proprietary. Its capitalism that brings quality, not the volunteerism. If we
> need improvement then it must be proprietary. By making Java open source,
> Sun might be hailed as "nice guy" but Java will loose the wind of cut throat
> competition and improvement, in its wings. MS is considered "Bad Guy" but
> look what they are producing and innovating and making everything user
> friendly to stay in the market. Think if MS was an open source and depended
> on volunteer's intellectual charity.
>
> People need product which is user friendly and accepted at gross root level.
> Products that has other related and assisting technologies. Why Sun don't
> invest on HotJava? JavaOS? and stop complaining about IE and Windows.
> Instead of heading to the woods of open source, Sun must face MS head on.
> That way, In my view, users will benefit more and Java will improve. There
> are some "monks" who keep preaching about open source common users don't
> care about open source, they care about how friendly a product is. It is
> capitalism STUPID!! That's what drives the products.
Thanks for enlightening me. I'll go uninstall Apache now and switch to IIS
....NOT!!!
- Sam Ruby
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