Andreas Ramos 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.
>
> 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).
>
Not true. The Java VM is shipped *with software*, not the OS. If you
install Netscape on a Wintel box, the Java VM can come with it. You can
distribute that VM in many ways. If MS isn't allowed to put java in
their products, it means *they* can't access the java market--really has
little effect on Sun other than losing a major way of "legitimizing"
java on the desktop and lots of licensing money.
What you lose is implementations that allow Java to talk to .dlls and
stuff that benefit MS -- i.e., work better with windows "inferior" ways
of doing things. I always liked how MS sells this--they claim to be
making java work better on windows, but what they really do is provide
unique patches that make java more friendly to their backwards OS and
old technologies.
Brett
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