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To: uu who wrote (14052)	1/28/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: Michael F. Donadio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

What Sun is doing is to give the base framework to the developers who can use to build their own products. This is absolutely brilliant. Think about it. If you get hold of a recipe for a delicious popular food and you are allowed to make your enhancements to that recipe which would make the resulted food even more delicious and more popular, would you rather sell that food yourself as your very own proprietary product based on the original widely accepted recipe, or do you rather give your enhanced recipe back to everyone else so they can also go ahead make that food? Thank you Addi. Your logic and insight are truly invaluable. My brilliance is in knowing who to ask for meaningful commentary. Now if we can only get you to become speaker of the house or leader of the senate. Logic and insight in such places would indeed be revolutionary. Michael

To: uu who wrote (14052)	1/28/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

[ What Sun is doing is to give the base framework to the developers who can use to build their own products.] TRUE!! My husband is a hacker hobbyist. He writes code for the fun of it. If he likes what he has written, he will post it to free share-ware. Linux amused him for quite awhile. Now he is busy writing code for his USRX Pilot. Guess, I do the same thing with recipes. I'm always changing them. If I had to follow a recipe exactly as it was written, I'd never cook anything because inevitably I would always be missing an ingredient that the recipe required. Instead, I just take whatever is in the frig and improvise. Also, it's easier to improvise than to follow a recipe--once you have learned the basics. As far as Microsoft goes, my husband dislikes Microsoft products for many reasons. I have heard him complain that he is often angry because a Microsoft programmer thinks he has devised the best solution for my husband's problem as set out in the Windows operating system. My husband gripes because he has to waste a lot of time to get around taht procedure that the programmer has written into Windows. Dear Addi, I like the way you compare hackers to cooks. I'd never thought of hackers in that way b4. Thanks, Mephisto