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To: Babu Arunachalam who wrote (7778)	2/17/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

This is something that would scare the java licensees. If SUN gets to make the standard and compete with applications written to that standard, a monopoly suit from the DOJ might be imminent - just guessing wild. Ah, yeah, real wild. The standard is a public specification which anybody with the resources can implement with or without Sun's participation. Java is Sun's trademark but you will see IBM compatible, I mean, Java compatible products do equally well. There is just no way you can compare the proprietary strangle hold Microsoft has on its APIs and the open platform represented by Java, it's just not a rational comparison now that Java is in the hands of ISO.