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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: JDK 1.02
To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
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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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