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Re: Some Comments [was Re: Article for Slashdot]




On 09-Sep-98 Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo wrote:
> Well, it seems a bit weird to me that Federal Court can define what is
> Java and what isn't... Some people in some big country are just crazy on
> lawyers and courts, I fear.

M$ used the Java Trademark with permission but changed A LOT of the semantics:
        1. Removed the RMI libraries (are mandatory by the Java Spec.)
        2. Added classes to standard libraries (forbidden, adding your own
           libraries is OK).
        3. Changing the INTERFACES to methods in ~30-40 standard classes.
Since this was obviously done to deteriorate Java platform independence,
Javasoft sued M$ for breaking the copyright terms (and won).

BTW: It's a very known M$ trick. They are doing now the same thing with
Kerberos.
They take the fame of the product "Look Mom we have KERBEROS in NT-5" but
change the protocol in incompatible ways.

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