Byron Hale wrote:

> In my experience, people, talking as the "Coward" did, are engaged in a
> turf war. Nothing that you do will satisfy them, because their apparent
> objective is not their real one. However, the appearance criticism may be
> something to actually be addressed.

> Here in Silicon Valley, the turf wars are very apparent. There was a Java
> investment fund of $100,000,000 USD, whether real or apparent. There has
> been an attempt to brainwash consumers (100% pure Java code). Propoganda
> tactics have been used by marketing communications companies to create fear
> of code that would run outside a sandbox. The sandbox, however, was quietly
> abandoned.'

Please restate this in english.

I know that The University of Maryland is starting to incorporate Java
in its curriculum.

> 
> Java has not caught on, generally. In fact, the last I heard, there was no
> Java for Linux!

Just what do you mean by this.  The java runtime system has been
available for linux for a very long time. 

-- 
Kevin Atkinson
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