[4735] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Latest Java hole is Netscape/Sun only
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Reardon)
Sun Mar 9 20:06:19 1997
From: Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>
To: "'Tazman'" <taz@kensico.com>, schemers@stanford.edu
Cc: "'Bob Denny'" <rdenny@dc3.com>,
"'WWW Security List'"
<WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:12:52 -0800
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>Java is open and platform independent. Java has been tested and
review by many
>security expert and researchers.
Let be clear: Java is platform-independent to some extent (I mean, you
need similar hardware, 256-color graphics, etc for just about every
'plaform' JDK 1.1 works on), but IT IS NOT OPEN. It is proprietary Sun
technology. I am not trying to shift the argument, but I want that on
the record since we are constantly getting beaten up on what is open vs.
closed.
-Thomas
