Re: JAVA (was: Re: "stable" platforms)

Chris Rehm wrote:

> ** Reply to note from DAsmussen <DAsmussen@aol.com> Wed, 25 Mar 1998 01:18:41 
>EST
>
>
> > Sun itself is not entirely without blame here.  They should place JAVA in 
>the
> > public domain, and help establish a board of major software/hardware
> > manufacturers to oversee the direction of the language IMO.  Forget the
>
> Putting Java in the public domain would kill it instantly. Sun (and
> IBM) have fought a long battle in getting an independant standards
> body to accredit Java. Now there is an independant body to certify
> levels of Java compliance. Also, there is Sun pushing the product to
> focus it's growth and maturity.
>
>

I agree.  By placing JAVA into the public would result in JAVA flavors like what
happened to UNIX.

This would surely open the door for companies to write "enhancements" to their
version of JAVA which would both enhance it's use on a particular platform and 
reduce
it's portability.

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