Re: a history question

From: JerryMouse (nospam_at_bisusa.com)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:58:39 -0500

Robert Wagner wrote:
>
> Microsoft wrote their own JVM, which included extensions that work
> only on a MS platform. MS said they fixed a weakness in the spec,
> which was true. The Sun licensing contract says outsiders developing a
> JVM are not allowed to hurt portability by adding proprietary
> features. Sun sued MS and won. Rather than fix their JVM, Microsoft
> got in a snit, removed it from the market and stopped supporting old
> copies. XP users must download their JVM from Sun.

Not so. XP users need not download JVM from Sun.

They can actually they should do the reverse - purge all reference to Java
from their system.

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