Kaffe's MS-Extensions Will Hurt Java

Tom Gall tgall at uswest.net
Fri Jun 25 06:42:09 PDT 1999


Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jun 24, 1999, Mike Cornall <mcornall at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > Where Java is concerned, Microsoft has stated that they intend to:
>
> >      "kill cross-platform Java by grow[ing] the polluted Java market."
>
> > Tim is going to help them.
>
> Indeed :-(

Double 8-(


> > Shame on you, Tim. I won't be using your product.
>
> You don't have to refrain from using the Standard part; you just have
> to fight against the non-Standard one.

There is another option, one in which other Open Source projects have
used.If Tim is going to go down that road, then maybe it's time to fork the
project.

--
Hakuna Matata,

Tom

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