At 09:03 AM 9/11/98 -0700, Andreas wrote:
>>Maybe I'm thinking too simplistic here, but any time one company offers a
>>distribution license to another, if they also retain the right to revoke
>>it. Size of the distributing company should not matter. Breach the
>>contract, lose the license. Simple, fair and legal.
>
>
>Sure, simple, fair, legal... and stupid.
Stupid? Why? Because it's on a much larger scale? The principal still
stands and may hurt more people, but I would not call it stupid. The way I
see it, ignorance can be educated, but there isn't a darned thing you can
do with stupidity.
>Microsoft claims that companies will be hurt if Sun revokes its Java
>license. The company that would be devasted will be... Sun.
>
>With Java in Windows, Sun has access to 95%+ of the desktop market. If Java
>is removed, Sun is left with a whopping 1% or so (the size of the UNIX
>market).
>
>That's why Sun is in a bad situation with Microsoft: they hate Microsoft,
>but they must deal with Microsoft. They threaten Microsoft with lawsuits,
>but they don't really want to win, they just want to push Microsoft into
>cooperating. Microsoft is playing along with Sun in order to assimilate
>Java.
That makes more sense. But it still bends the principles of the license to
distribute software. Although it is easier when going through the courts
too, if they don't follow through with their threats. Sounds like more
bureaucratic manuevering.
Jim
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