Re: Java helps prove consumers want technology unbundled

[Joe Barr <joe@pjprimer.com>]

Some platform inconsistencies are due to lack of maturity and unintentional
errors.  Others, such as those created by Microsoft, were done with bad
intentions.

It seems a current theme with Microsoft and their boosters and their covert R&D
types to blame the victim.  "What we did to so and so didn't matter because
they had made mistakes anyway."

This is like a band of muggers bashing a victim's head in with a tire tool,
strangling them, and then setting the corpse on fire and using as a defense the
argument that "Well, she was old and would have died in a few years anyway."

The only difference being, of course, that the muggers are a little more honest.

See ya,
Joe Barr



On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Simon Cooke wrote:
> >From: "Lewis A. Mettler" <lmettler@lamlaw.com>
> >Incompatibility is not Sun's fault.  Are you sure you are not employed
> >by Microsoft?
> 
> Er, actually it is - the Java spec is very fast and loose on some core 
> concepts regarding the APIs and the libraries - for example, threading and 
> thread scheduling is different on each system. There's no nailing down of 
> Z-Ordering of components for AWT (Netscape does it the reverse of everything 
> else in the known universe in their JVM). And so on and so on.
> 
> Simon
> 
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