__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Friday 20 April 2007 18:58 \__
> We also talked about slowing down and coordinating modifications to the
> Java language - I proposed a "Java Language Council"
They can't just leave anything alone, can they? Not HTML, not OpenGL.
Embrace.... and break/'extend'. Again I'll quote:
Expert Testimony of Ronald Alepin in Comes v. Microsoft - Embrace, Extend,
Extinguish
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| You'll hear some emails read aloud, one of Bill Gates's, an email from
| 1996 about Java, where he says he was losing sleep over how great
| Java was, and you'll see a strategy he suggested -- "fully
| supporting Java and extending it in a Windows/Microsoft way".
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| [...]
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| Well, when applets are cross-platform, it expands the number of
| applications that are available to you so you can go to a website.
| And if you have a Linux computer or a Macintosh computer or a Windows 3.1
| computer, you can get an application and it will run.
|
| You don't have to either select a specific application or hope that the
| independent software vendor or the website created the application for your
| platform. So it would increase the number of applications available to you.
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