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To: Gus who wrote (9119)	2/2/2000 10:51:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 17183

"...P.S. Have you been following the way IBM and Microsoft have been trying to keep Sun from turning Java into some kinda proprietary thing especially now that it has become so popular? " Gus, Java is proprietary in that Sun is the inventor of the Java language much like Microsoft is the inventor of Windows. While Microsoft has never and will likely never open upon Windows source code and API's, Sun has made much more progress with anyone able to join the specification process of an API. While Microsoft's motives are glaringly obvious - IBM is a wild card in that they have more investments in java than Sun itself does - so i wouldnt say Microsoft and IBM are aligned here.