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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 1996 10:02:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, didier@omnix.fr.org, nate@mt.sri.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: JDK 1.02
Message-ID:  <199608231702.KAA16011@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608231644.KAA07194@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Aug 23, 96 10:44:31 am

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> Look at the mindshare M$ has.  It is *inversely* proportional to it's
> open-ness.  Sun is just taking a card from M$'s deck and using it to
> it's full advantage.

I think we could argue that in order to contribute to "mindshare",
one has to have a mind... that could easily disqualify most of the
people you are counting there...

> However, on the bright side it's popularity has caused the folks who
> build the PC build tools to give usable build environments (Symantec's
> Cafe', M$'s VJ++, etc..).  Sun has *yet* to come up with a usable IDE
> for doing java development, and they own the technology. :(

Sorta like the toolkits (not) available from the X Consortium...

					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
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