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To: uu who wrote (8331)	3/14/1998 3:21:00 PM
From: LKO	Read Replies (1) of 64865

It used to be that in the past the always placed a R in a circle on top of the word Java and then at the bottom they would say something like: Java is a registered trade mark of Sun Microsystems, but this time they have not bothered doing that! I wished I knew what they are thinking! I think they think that that the contract they wrote with Sun gave them the right to develop Java when it said something like their implementation would be the "reference implementation" or something in their contract. I am not lawyer enough to know whether their thinking is right or not but I am sure they have good lawyers who seem to think they can get away with it. I am afraid in the "Java game" they will succeed in hijacking it. It might be by playing dirty, but they might win anyway by having better lawyers. In the "monopoly game" they seem to be winning anyway. By the time the case settles, Windows98 would be out and the bundling coercion issue would be moot. Netscape seems to be a tamed competitor anyway. Their strategy of locking away customer choice for platform implmentors seems to be working. I think even in a level field they would be a dominant player and a good competitor but why play by rules when you can own the rules and always Win ? Any flaws in this scenario ? <ggg> -LKO

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