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To: rudedog who wrote (46051)	6/6/2000 3:35:00 PM
From: Thomas C. Kimmel	Read Replies (1) of 74651

>>> ...my point was that the operation of the use of Java and the Win32 APIs is substantially similar, and the stance of neither company is really "open". rudedog, They really are not very similar. Microsoft makes no bones about their stance: they, and they alone, will establish what interfaces are available to independent developers (while providing other, more functional, interfaces to their own developers and privileged partners). And it shows in the quality of the published interfaces. Sun is hesitant to make Java freely available (which may be what you mean by "open"). And they should be - they wasted considerable effort in the wars for UNIX standardization and they don't want to go thru those splintered times again. Other entities DO have input into the Java spec (one of IBM's biggest complaints is that Sun is taking credit for APIs that IBM designed and implemented). And that, again, shows in the quality. There are no hidden interfaces below Java - everyone plays on the same field. Or rather, will, when the platform is "finished" and robust. I eagerly await that day. I have spent a lot of my working life porting software and I'm tired of it. -tck

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