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To: Marvin Mansky who wrote (17395)	6/28/1999 2:49:00 PM
From: Prognosticator	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

<sarcasm mode>Repeat after me now: one two three: Awwww, poor Microsoft, being forced to play fair. Shouldn't happen to such a nice corporation. </sarcasm mode> I did find the following amusing: shows that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing in the hands of a Microsoft lawyer: he obviously knows little about programming, and nothing about Java. Even if that were the case, so what?" Quackenbush said. "Once you filter out the programming conventions and the brace brackets and the header files and the if-then-else statements, how much is left? I also question how much is original -- some of the code comes from third parties. Java goes back to 1990." zdnet.com P.