Thanx, Andy.  There have been such rumours! ;-)

At 08:02 AM 2/25/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Yes!  Actually Apache is funded fully by Microsoft and its all been this
>big farce..  We'll be close sourcing everything and handing it back to
>Bill!  Don't worry, Soon we'll have Microsoft leadership for the whole
>group!
>
>-Andy
>
>On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 16:45, Micael Padraig Og mac Grene wrote:
> > Do you really thing that C# is going to be a competitor to Java?  That
> > amazes me.  Do you guys work for Microsoft?
> >
> > At 10:28 AM 2/24/02 +0100, you wrote:
> > >James Duncan Davidson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 2/5/02 08:24, "Stefano Mazzocchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > My position: give me a solid (possibly GPL-ed) CLI implementation, a
> > > > > Java2C# porting tool, a BSD-licensed library of .NET classes and
> > > > > java-cloning classes and I say let's kiss java good bye.
> > > >
> > > > Heh. You are ahead of schedule. I figured that you'd be saying 
> something
> > > > like this about June of 2002.
> > >
> > >uh, I take this as a compliment :)
> > >
> > > > <sigh>
> > > >
> > > > You're right you know. Stay flexible. Go with the flow. Sometimes 
> it's not
> > > > worth fighting all the battles at once.
> > >
> > >Wise words, brother, wise words.
> > >
> > >But my fear is that .NET might be even worse in the long run :/
> > >
> > >Gosh, I think I'll have to write my own programming platform one day to
> > >avoid all this.
> > >
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> > >                           able to give birth to a dancing star.
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