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Re: Microsoft's Java efforts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Magdalinski)
Tue Mar 19 18:46:24 1996

Date:         Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:25:10 +0000
Reply-To: Java Interest <JAVA-INTEREST@JAVASOFT.COM>
From: Stefan Magdalinski <stefan@IANDI.DEMON.CO.UK>
To: Multiple recipients of list JAVA-INTEREST
              <JAVA-INTEREST@JAVASOFT.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <9603191350.AA19055@ns1.ctlnet.com>

On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Global wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Picked this up in the mailbox--thought it might be of particular interest here.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> >Return-Path: <java-human@mcs.anl.gov>
> >To: java@antares.mcs.anl.gov
> >Subject: Microsoft's Java efforts
> >Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 20:58:44 -0600
> >From: Steve Tuecke <tuecke@mcs.anl.gov>
> >Sender: owner-java@mcs.anl.gov
> >
> >Last week I went to the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference,
> >where they showed off their Java efforts (among other things).  What I
> >saw looked very cool.  Here is a summary of what I learned about
> >Microsoft's Java efforts:

<Lots of Microsoft blurb stuff deleted>

Any idea from them of their licensing policy on all this stuff,
especially the Msoft originated extra libraries? Are we going to be
subjected to the sledgehammer marketing 'standardization' technique again?

Forgive me for being suspicious, but I'm a hardened old cynic with a
viscious, bitter and twisted mind.

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