Re: J++

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 08:29:32PM -0500, Joe Barr wrote:
> 
> So is MS shedding itself of its poisoned Java generator or not?
> Granted, nobody in their right mind ever took it for anything except
> another illegal weapon in its war on innovation, born of the sniveling
> cowardice that is Gates' chief attribute, but it seems they could
> dispose of it a little more cleanly than they are.

	I don't know if they will or not, but it doesn't suprise me.
They commissioned TransVirtual (http://www.transvirtual.com) to put
Microsoft's extensions into their Open Source VM.

	TransVirtual agreed, despite criticism, because they thought it
would help Microsoft users migrate away from Microsoft's proprietary VM
in the event that Microsoft was forced to drop their extensions, or
ended up dropping the product all together.

	So, if Microsoft does this, it will not altogether be a
surprise.  Besides, a lot of the Java hype has worn off, and Microsoft,
being the marketing company that it is, doesn't see much point in trying
to compete on their competitors playing field when the product no longer
has such mindshare among the press.

	This is not to say that Java is all hype, but the only reason
Microsoft embraced it is the hype surrounding it.  They had to be seen
as being up on 'the next big thing' sort of like when the advertised
Windows NT a being a microkernel.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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