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Re: Java vs .NET was: RPGIII compiler vs Visual Basic

On 6/21/05, Steve Richter <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If this is true, then Microsoft is pointing their ship directly into the
> > deep waters of proprietary code.
> 
> When was it ever accepted that proprietary code was a bad thing?  The
> open source community is a awash in incompatibilities.  The
> incompatiblity between PHP and Java being the one I think is very
> important.   An enterprise pays a little extra to MS, in return is
> received a very solid and consistent way of doing things. Basically
> the way the AS400 used to be.
> 
> -Steve
> 

Java is not open source.

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