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To: Alok Sinha who wrote (17437)6/29/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: QwikSand  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
I think Microsoft's subversion of Java is now entering the "too little, too late" phase.

At this point, it doesn't matter even if Microsoft manages to sneak pollution into the platform. The polluting interfaces will be used less and less as time goes on. Microsoft's pollution is only relevant in the context of the all-Windows PC world. But the PC is being replaced by other things despite the panicky yammerings of Michael Dell & crew. Albeit slowly, it is being replaced by other things, and these other things won't be running Windows. Microsoft's strategic arguments about "why not just write directly for Windows, which is universal", and "why not make your program run faster by taking advantage of Java interfaces for the native platform" etc. etc. are all fading into irrelevance.

This is why the lawsuit was a good move by Sun. Time is on Sun's side. This game's over, and Microsoft has lost. And they know it. What matters is that Windows won't be the platform of the future. Java will. It's what software developers will favor.

So go ahead, pollute it a little. Give up some control to a committee, even one that's partly packed with Microsoft lackeys. It's too late to "embrace and extend" Java to death. Sun will not give up so much control that Java can be filibustered to a standstill.

Alok, I don't think this is a story about a problem. I think it's a story about fighting the last war.

Regards,
--QwikSand
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