From: geeman@best.com
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 14:13:02 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Java
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19691231160000.006e5ad0@best.com>
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At 01:15 AM 8/15/97 +0200, you wrote:
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>::Boots
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>	  http://www.computerworld.com/news/970730javah.html
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>The Paul Maritz interview that article links to has disappeared from
>Computerworld's site, but a copy is appended.
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>     CW: Is there some reason you wouldn't want to ship them? Is there
>     something inferior about them?
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>     Maritz: No. We don't want to put further bloat on top of the system.


This obviously has to make everone on the planet bust a gut howling with
laughter!


>     We think that basically there isn't a lot of end-user value in them.
>     And Sun's trying to establish them as basically their platform. It's
>     a competing operating system.
>