[4738] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Latest Java hole is Netscape/Sun only
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (schemers@stanford.edu)
Sun Mar 9 20:38:05 1997
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:52:37 -0800 (PST)
From: schemers@stanford.edu
To: Tazman <taz@kensico.com>
Cc: Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>, schemers@stanford.edu,
"'Bob Denny'" <rdenny@dc3.com>,
"'WWW Security List'" <WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970309183900.12656A-100000@kensico.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
taz@kensico.com writes:
>
> All the specifications for the Java Virtual Machine and Java Language is
> documented and free. You can easily find 20 vendors implementing the JVM
> and browsers. How "open" do you want it to be?
And of course there are plans on moving the Java specifications to a
standards body. C++ certainly wouldn't have benefited from being
sent to a standards body early on (of course some would say it didn't
benefit after being sent to a standards body ;-)
It all depends on your definition of Open. I think Java in its current
state (and direction) is more "Open" then ActiveX, even after Microsoft
turned it over to the OpenGroup. Not to mention the fact that you'll
never see Microsoft turn over control of something like the WIN32 apis...
roland, speaking for *myself*, working for the JavaSoft Security group...
