From: Blake Coverett <blake@bcdev.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:08:47 -0700 (PDT)
To: "'Rich Graves'" <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
Subject: RE: Mindshare and Java
Message-ID: <01BB3297.78880050@bcdev.com>
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> I agree that the major innovation, and cypherpunk opportunity, of Java is
> in its cross-platform nature, not its vaunted ability to run untrusted
> code safely. I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in running untrusted code. 
> Give me digitally signed code that I can trust, or for which the author 
> can at least be held accountable, and I'll be happy. 

Absolutely!

> As cool as many of the people on the Java team are, though, I am dubious
> that Java is going to live up to the hype. It is still not clear to me
> that Microsoft is going to support it seriously in their browser, which by
> mid-1997 will be so tightly integrated with the lowest-common-denominator
> operating system that there will be no room for Netscape.

There was an official announcement at their Professional Developers Conference
a few weeks back.  In short, full support in the browsers (and apparently MS 
is now the keeper of the reference implementation on Win32) and also
a full blown Java development environment code-named 'Jakarta'.

-Blake