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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (50)	10/27/1997 12:00:00 PM
From: Columbo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

You really think they are interested in the good of the industry? That proves to me you have no clue of what's going on. This is one of the brilliant (the only one) marketing moves Sun has made - making people think Java is some sort of gift to the world, and not just a way to sell more Sun products At least they don't have code that says if (software = "Netsape" \|\| "Non-MS") { coredump() } ////////////////////////////////////////////// // Learn Java, help destroy the Evil Empire //////////////////////////////////////////////// If you have specific MS gripes and can provide a better alternative let me know. I was on HP Unix for 8 years. I could go for months without having to reboot. I once had an uptime of 220 days, and then it was because of an UPS outage. I'm now on an Dell 200 pro running NT, and I have to reboot every other day. It is slower than my 150p running W95. So you must write great quality software. I bet you don't have a computer science degree. MH #0

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (50)	10/27/1997 1:02:00 PM
From: Columbo	Respond to of 1600

This is one of the brilliant (the only one) marketing moves Sun has made - making people think Java is some sort of gift to the world, and not just a way to sell more Sun products. Well, DUHHHHH. Kind of like Intel liking and encouraging the bloatware everyone has to run. MH #0

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (50)	10/27/1997 2:04:00 PM
From: Lewis Gershtein	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1600

To: Robert Winchell I applaud your position. This is one of very few reasonable takes on the issues. The fact that someone owns Nestcape shares does not make Netscape a great company or its competitors bad companies. In addition, people should have at least minimal intelligence to be able to go over their jealousy.

To: Robert Winchell who wrote (50)	10/27/1997 2:53:00 PM
From: Kal	Respond to of 1600

>>This is one of the brilliant (the only one) marketing moves Sun has made - making people think Java is some sort of gift to the world, and not just a way to sell more Sun products. Java is a gift for it promises OS independence. IMO, it is a gift to the world, and I have no problem if it is a way for SUN to sell more products. What's wrong with that when their product is better than competetion if not the best? At least they deliver what they advertise, now. Not a year or 2 from now. Regardless of microsock product quality, I do not accept the principles it bases its business on. This crush and destroy competition mentality is not good for consumers. If it's up to Bully Billy, he'd love to be the only supplier of software; OS on down. If no one stops such practices, sooner than you think we'll be getting all our needs from microsuck. i'll let you reflect on how good that would be. "We're doing what's best for the consumer" gives such great laughs. MH #1