[WEB4LIB] Re: IE 6.0 Problems & Product Lifecycle

[Daniel Messer]

I had a gnawing suspicion in the back of my head that's what the deal was, but
no evidence to back it up. Thank you for the clarification and the
confirmation!

Dan

Blake Carver wrote:

> >
> >     First off, playing devil's advocate here, from what the article on
> >C|NET says, Sun took MS to court to prevent them from including new
> >versions of Java in MSIE. To which MS dropped Java support all together.
> >My question is, what's the problem?
>
> If that was really the case, that would be fine:
>
> Sun (Scott McNealy) said something rather different;
> "Microsoft has implied in the press that removing the Java Virtual Machine
> was a condition of the settlement of our lawsuit against them. Pardon my
> French, but that's bullspin."
> "The decision to remove Java technology was Microsoft's alone. The real
> reason, I suspect, is to give you the same kind of choice Henry Ford
> offered to buyers of the Model T: "Any color you want, as long as it's
> black." "
> http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1276-210-6943640-1.html?tag=archlnk
>
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> Blake Carver
> Web Librarian
> The Ohio State University Libraries

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