Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> They got sued because they tried to *change* it to deliberately make 
>> it incompatible. 
> 
> No, that wasn't my understanding. What I read during that timeframe was 
> they added features to let Java invoke Windows stuff natively with much 
> more ease than JNI, and the IDE generated code from the wizards to 
> invoke that by default, unless you said "no, really, generate JNI 
> instead." But you could take an existing Java program and compile and 
> run it on MS's Java without a problem.

Well, perhaps you're right. All I know is that we started ending up with 
lots of "Java" programs which only actually work with the M$ JVM. And 
that rather subverts the entire point of Java - portability.

I was also told - I haven't verified this personally, but I was told - 
that most of the changes weren't "better" or "worse", just "different 
for the sake of being different". IOW, to subvert the standard.

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