[geeks] Sun files suit against Microsoft

[Michael S Schiller]

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> 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.

I think the point is that MS IS shipping a version of java, an older /
broken version. What Sun wants is for them to ship the current working
version. This way when idiots install XP and try the java that's already
there they'll have something that works right. Otherwise you get
situations like "Oh yea, I tried Java, it don't work right, so I use
.net now"

As I see it, MS should either ship the proper / current version of a
product, or not ship it at all.

-Mike
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