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Off-Topic: Sun Won MS in the Race to Set Java Standard



Off-Topic, but very important to the non-MSIE platforms (i.e. non
Windows/95/NT and non-MAC), which are (mainly) UNIX:

ISO is going to approve in a few hours the Java standard as submitted
by Sun. A big surprise, after everybody was sure that Microsoft won
this battle. Microsoft used a strong pressure, and it seemed that
Sun failed to achive the 2/3 minimum, but rumors say that 20 (of 27)
choose Sun, and the impossible is going to happen.

If Microsoft would win the battle, as it was thought previously, Sun
would loose the last chance to stop Microsoft from modifying Java and
making it Windows' (and MAC's) dependent. As it seems now, Sun still
has the chance to stop Microsoft.

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Eli Marmor
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