Re: Java
You gentlemen are probably more familiar than I with the history of this programming language, but it was my impression that Java was intitially a Sun product to which Microsoft added its own modifications and extensions, and it was this variant of the language which shipped with Windows.
Maybe I misunderstand the dispute, but it appears to me that Sun just wants its version of Java to be able to run too. Since they apparently developed the langauge originally, that demand does not seem unreasonable to this observer.
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