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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18963)	5/8/1998 5:45:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>Beddow said TCI defers to Sun, of Mountain View, Calif., as the "experts" on Java.<<< Does this mean that MSFT can install their system on TCIs boxes, including the Java component, when SUN says they are good to go? That's kind of interesting. Also, if HP does produce a compliant Java which MSFT uses, isn't that a fig leaf for MSFT having caved on Java to get the TCI contract? I take back (again) everything I said about Sun needing to make Java public domain. True, I'm still unhappy with the technical progress on it, which has been amateurish. But 'scuse me Scott, anyway. I was very naive about how this would have to work. Chaz

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18963)	5/10/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

It's Your Problem (Not Theirs) nytimes.com Once more, mainly for amusement, on the subject of shrink-wrap, and now click-wrap, contracts. But buried in there we have this revealing quote: Steve Tapia, a Microsoft corporate attorney, says it wouldn't be fair to hold software to the same standards as, say, a car. That's lucky, because auto makers have found it very expensive to sell cars with defects -- especially defects they knew about. Software is different, Tapia says, "because personal computer software may be used for a myriad of different purposes on an infinite amount of hardware combinations." Yeah, but when it comes to antitrust law, Microsoft software is just like a car- or a Chrysler car radio, as the case may be. Another one of those things where small minds are a problem. Whose problem it will be, we don't know yet. Cheers, Dan.