IP: Windows XP rush bypasses Sun's Java - Tech News - CNET.com

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:42:23 -0500
> To: (Recipient list suppressed)
> From: Manny Farber <manny () manny com>
> Subject: Windows XP rush bypasses Sun's Java - Tech News - CNET.com
>
> If Microsoft is going to play these games, I don't see anything wrong
> with an injunction preventing them from shipping it when they announced
> they would (September 25), i.e. not an injunction on what they ship,
> just when.
>
> Right now, Microsoft is effectively "bundling"--first they render Sun's 
> existing
> JVM incompatible (IE 6 changes), then they pull the rug out from under Sun 
> when it looks
> like Sun will have their new JVM ready in time for September 25. This leaves
> the PC manufacturers with only Microsoft's JVM, which Microsoft had an 
> advantage
> in developing since Microsoft wrote the OS.
>
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6932013.html?tag=dd.ne.dtx.nl-sty.0
>
>
> Manny
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