From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 22 20:59:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA25656 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 20:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rk.ios.com (rk.ios.com [198.4.75.55]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA25647 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 20:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rashid@localhost) by rk.ios.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA20847; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 23:53:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Rashid Karimov Message-Id: <199608230353.XAA20847@rk.ios.com> Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 To: frankd@yoda.fdt.net (Frank Seltzer) Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 23:53:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, terry@lambert.org, imp@village.org, chuckr@glue.umd.edu, didier@omnix.fr.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Frank Seltzer" at Aug 22, 96 10:37:42 pm Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > > > Except that VJ++ isn't going to stay 'free' for much longer. M$ is > > distributing for free until they get the bugs worked out, then they'll > > start charging for it. > > Kinda like Internet Explorer - it's free until they clobber Netscape. Prior to Netscape going bankrupt :)))) we'd have to ask them to at least give/sell us sources for Unix version of Netscape. MS definitely won't support it. Or may be it will come up with nastier scenario - Unix version of Explorer which will coredump every 3 seconds. Then they will blame *nix*es for not being stable/robust/fast enough and tell us clueless Unix ppl to switch to Windows :) which will be rewritten in JAVA by that time and have HMTL support build into the kernel :)) Rashid. > > > Nate > > > > Frank > -- > Only in America can a homeless veteran sleep in a cardboard box while a > draft dodger sleeps in the White House - anonymous > >