[geeks] Sun files suit against Microsoft

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sat Mar 9 11:27:04 CST 2002


On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:21:24PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On March 9, Keith Campbell wrote:
> > > Why should people be required to download it? Why cannot Microsoft
> > > just ship Sun's Java? Please answer honestly and without MS
> > > propaganda and bullshit.
> > 
> > If we force M$ to ship a free third party program with Windows, why stop
> > at 1?
> > 
> > Pretty soon we will be getting 100 CD's every time we have to buy
> > Windows.
> 
>   So don't buy Windows.

I think he was trying to say that if we force MS to ship 3rd party software,
then we are setting a precedent that could later come back and bite, say
Sun or SGI.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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