After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Microsoft manager: "Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on
> and steal the Java language."
>
> Nice company...
>
> No wonder Miguel et al love them so much.
Excerpted for clarity:
> PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT
> 2768
> Comes v. Microsoft
>
> However we need to coopt the best lessons from Java into Windows.
>
> Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java
> language.
>
> Agreed on x-plat. Screw Sun.
>
> Of course, you and I probably have some old Sun buddies that would think
> otherwise :-)
>
> Don't care about cross platform in future - pretense or otherwise. AFC is the
> closest to this at this point.
>
> Do we have any pretense of cross-platform left? ;-)
No. Now the pretense is about being "open".
--
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
-- Mark Twain
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