[2387] in java-interest
ANDF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Greco)
Sat Sep 30 06:53:10 1995
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 11:24:17 EDT
From: fgreco@lehman.com (Frank Greco)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
jmarsh@mitre.org says:
> My understanding is that when the architecture neutral distribution format
> (ANDF) people at OSF developed the ANDF spec, they spent a lot of time
> ensuring that it was "not possible" to decompile ANDF code to source. They
> were extremely concerned about intellectual property issues associated with
> giving people mechanisms that permitted access to source. They believed
> that if it were not possible to protect source, it would be significantly
> more difficult to get vendors to sign up to deliver their code in ANDF. (Of
> course ANDF never went anywhere, but that is/may be a different issue...)
>
> It seems to me that it would not be a good idea to ignor the ANDF work on
> source access as JAVA goes forward, otherwise it might limit the potential
> for the future.
I agree with the ANDF protection-of-src-code philosophy, but
let's leave any OSF "work" out of Java. Gawd... please.
OSF never delivered anything useful in their history. Well...
they certainly were *useful* to Microsoft.
Frank G.
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