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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (9956)	5/28/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: Nolan Toone	Read Replies (1) of 64865

> How is it that HWP is selling and licensing a version of Java? Did they > invent this version from the ground up, essentially redesigning a new > language similar to Sun Java? Or is HWP one of those 150+ licensees of > Sun's. The LANGUAGE is FREE. Sun license the IMPLEMENTATION. HP invented the IMPLEMENTATION from the ground up (known as a clean room implementation). (Are people ever going to understand the open process? ) Everything HP intended on doing, though not to suns desire, is within the groundwork of the open process that sun follows. There were a couple of little things that there were some questions on but HP has been totally upfront and honest in their dealings. (M$, on the other hand, .......) > I personally wish Microsoft would just give back the whole license > agreement; cancel it and give the code back; forget the whole thing. No > matter what MSFT does, Sun is going to view them as the enemy, so what's > the use in trying to get along? I think sun might like that as well, but it's M$ who wouldn't dare do that.

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