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Re: The Future of Java (and Sun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David George)
Fri Sep 1 09:57:43 1995
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 23:08:21 GMT
From: David George <david@threewiz>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rawn Shah <rawn@rtd.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 17:40:14 -0700 (MST)
Subject: Re: The Future of Java (and Sun)
> : According to an article in the Financial Times (jul 17)
> :... 'Imagine if you have 20m users of free Java wordprocessor
> : and then you
> : form a little company and charge a dollar a copy of the
> fourth version : of the program ...'
>
> This must be the latest in the line of jokes, right?
>
> Somebody at Sun has been spending far too much time with
> the GNU people. GNU produces great software, but for one
> it will never ever develop into a commercial product
[snip]
> First of all 20m users will NOT be using a free Java
> wordprocessor. Even if they do, $20M ($1 per copy) will in
> no way justify the cost of dev of three copies.
Calm down, it's only a newspaper article. In fact GNU do quite well
in the area of commercial software. Unix vendors do use GNU products
in their releases and make substantial contributions to GNU funding.
Back to Java the idea is that each time the Word processor is used
the co. gets $1. The advantage to the user is in always having the
latest version. Problems are bandwidth and the transfer of control
for budgets from management to users.
David
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