I hope people take the time to read the entire article, Michael, because it really is important for SUNW shareholders. Thank you for posting it.
Here are some more article extracts:
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Sun initially tried to standardize Java through a subgroup of the
International Standards Organization, but backed out and
started over with a different organization called ECMA, formerly
known as the European Computer Manufacturers Association.
Sun proposed to ECMA a process that would have put the
future of Java in the hands of the Sun-centric "Java community
process," but ECMA stripped that language out and instead put
itself in control. The change opened the way for Microsoft to try
to exert its influence over the standard...
The ECMA group called TC41 has as its primary goal the task
of developing "a standard for a cross-platform computing
environment based upon the Java 2 Standard Edition Version
1.2.2," ECMA said. Sun "failed" to submit Java 1.2.2 to the
committee in October, "claiming it had unresolved intellectual
property rights issues regarding the specification," Wheatley
said in an email to TC41 members and the head of ECMA, Jan
van den Beld.
The ECMA Coordinating Committee requested that Sun submit
its clarification by December 1, but Sun chose not to, saying
the request was outside the authority of the committee, a
company representative said. "The date we are looking at is the
[ECMA] General Assembly [meeting] on [the] 16th in
Germany," the Sun representative said...
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