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To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7581)	5/19/1998 12:55:00 AM
From: mozek	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Obviously, only a clairvoyant could answer all of those questions, but I'll offer opinions. How long before we need to license JAVA from Microsoft rather than from SUN? Maybe we should be asking HP. I suppose if Java were truly "open" Sun wouldn't be threatening HP legally for building a clean room implementation. Seem's like Sun has control of the Java trademark, so I have no idea. Will we ever be able to write to JAVA and play to all other operating systems that license JAVA? I don't believe this will happen for technical reasons that have nothing to do with Microsoft. Remember, Microsoft's implementation was "most compatible" as described by PC Magazine. They labeled it as such because even Sun's own implementation failed to run numerous applets on the Web designed for previous versions or Netscape's implementation. Microsoft's implementation ran them all. Has there been any attempt by Microsoft to preempt the functionality of JAVA on its platform? I'm not aware of any such attempts. I know that Microsoft has tried to add real functionality to Java and expose more Windows functionality without impairing compatibility with existing Java. Are any of these "innovations" really ways to defeat JAVA? Java's a language, and a pretty good one at that. I think Microsoft competes with Sun by building a better implementation, not Java itself. Is Apple attempting to preempt JAVA? Will developers/consumers need to license Apple JAVA in order for foreign JAVA programs to run in the Mac environment? Boy, got me :-) Mike

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