__/ [ birre ] on Tuesday 16 January 2007 17:06 \__
> On 2007-01-09 19:21, amicus_curious wrote:
>
>> I had commented previously about the excessive paranoia that seems to
>> pervade the community of OSS advocates regarding Microsoft. They see a
>> conspiracy in virtually every activity favorable to Microsoft products.
>> This instance is no exception. In spite of the mantra of the Unix
>> followers and their bretheren, Java is not as totally popular as they
>> claim.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070108020408557
>
> 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".
>
> /birre
Same source:
"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."
How can Microsft ever permit this?
--
~~ Best regards
Roy S. Schestowitz | Windows O/S: chmod a-x internet; kill -9 internet
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU is Not UNIX | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
roy pts/4 Tue Jan 16 16:42 - 16:44 (00:02)
http://iuron.com - proposing a non-profit search engine
|
|