[WEB4LIB] Re: IE 6.0 Problems & Product Lifecycle

[Dan Lester]

I'm not taking sides on this, but believing Scott McNealy is as
difficult at believing Bill Gates....or believing [insert name of one
of many other CEO/CFO types from similar companies]

dan


Wednesday, August 29, 2001, 1:05:24 PM, you wrote:

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

DM> Dan

DM> 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
>>
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Blake Carver
>> Web Librarian
>> The Ohio State University Libraries

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