Andy's comments and positioning...

[Andy Burns]

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From: "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
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Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: Andy's comments and positioning...


> Andy Burns wrote:
>
> > How did Sun benefit from Java, giving it away as a free programming
> > language?
>
> I don't believe the benefit is monetary. Java is valuable to Sun for
> strategic reasons, a major de-facto standard not under Micro$oft's
control.
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
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>

What was Micro$oft's free alternative to Java that ran on all OS's?

Andy