Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:23:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rashid@rk.ios.com (Rashid Karimov) Cc: frankd@yoda.fdt.net, nate@mt.sri.com, terry@lambert.org, imp@village.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, didier@omnix.fr.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 Message-ID: <199608231623.JAA15851@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199608230353.XAA20847@rk.ios.com> from "Rashid Karimov" at Aug 22, 96 11:53:23 pm
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> > > Except that VJ++ isn't going to stay 'free' for much longer. M$ is > > > distributing for free until they get the bugs worked out, then they'll > > > start charging for it. > > > > Kinda like Internet Explorer - it's free until they clobber Netscape. > > Prior to Netscape going bankrupt :)))) we'd > have to ask them to at least give/sell us > sources for Unix version of Netscape. MS > definitely won't support it. Or may be it will > come up with nastier scenario - Unix version of > Explorer which will coredump every 3 seconds. > Then they will blame *nix*es for not being stable/robust/fast > enough and tell us clueless Unix ppl to switch to Windows :) > which will be rewritten in JAVA by that time and have > HMTL support build into the kernel :)) Unlikely. The counter-accusation is that they are real-mode programmers who don't understand that memeory protection is to protect the system from them, not them from the system. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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