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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hal Rubel who wrote (7734)	5/20/1998 6:28:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

The problem Hal, is that like even Netscape admitted, "We'll never know how Netscape would have developed..." It is frankly ludicrous for the United States Justice Dept to be in the position of saying that one particular company would have been more successful in promoting a programming language if if if if if. It's just stupid anyway, and the evidence completely contradicts all of the lawsuit's assertions. Java is here. Java is being used, being promoted, and applications are being written. REAL applications, that you can actually do something with besides the highly touted "browsing". MSFT is not trying to halt Java development. That is an absurd assertion. As someone else astutely observed, Microsoft's efforts to promote Java by expending human resources to that task have resulted in a version of Java that was awarded the "Most Compatible" distinction by a computing industry magazine review. I'm confident that Microsoft attorneys will shortly be enlightening the court as to these matters. When this occurs, my guess is that Mssr. Klein will be a bit red in the face as the judge looks probingly in his direction.