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

To: mozek who wrote (8447)	6/13/1998 11:43:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Mozek, we're probably boring lots of other people. I certainly do understand the issues, and I am not attempting to deceive. Try to think of a third possibility. "Netscape modifying classes in the java.* packages" is simply not true. Perhaps their implementation wasn't correct, but intent matters here, and they certainly didn't publish documentation incorrectly specifying how to use the java.* heirachy. Was Microsoft, in adding and modifying the java.* heirarchy, intending to eventually match Sun's correctly? Not from their or your statements. Netscape, on the other hand, made it clear that they intended to comply as quickly as possible with Sun's API. As far as justifying the "modifications in question in Microsoft's implementation," well, justify all you want, the question is whether or not Microsoft is allowed to according to their contract. As far as whether or not the changes would confuse developers with half a brain--- the fact is that plenty of developers with full brains get confused all the time through differences in libraries in various flavors of Unix. I see no reason why it's insulting to developers to give them a unified API. Not to mention the fact that with automated tools and third-party objects, developers might use an object or a tool and only later discover an incompatibility. This is absolutely not true. Microsoft has accurately maintained that it is and has been in compliance with the Agreement. That accuracy is now before a Judge who already has made a preliminary ruling in favor of Sun. As far as where you work, I know you work at Microsoft. I was being satirical-- either of our places of employment are secondary to the merits of our arguments. And as far as believing Microsoft, I believe much of what they say. I believe very little about their public claims about Sun and Java. I believe my friend whos friends at Microsoft told him of the term "embrace it to death," when talking to him about Java, as well.