I found the article more amusing than reassuring.  Given Microsoft's legal
position it seems inconceivable to me that they'd do something as blatantly
anti-competitive as withdrawing support for Java from WinXP, and yet that
seems to be what they are prepared to do.  Do you think perhaps that M$'s
legal department gets their Maalox by the semi-load?  Eeeeek!!!  On the
other hand, it may annoy people so much that rather than connect to M$'s web
site to download the Java plugin for IE they'll choose to download Netscape
instead.  Or perhaps they'll download Linux.  Methinks t'would indeed be
fitting were M$ to find themselves hoist by their own petard...  (On the
other hand, I'm writing this using Outlook running on NT, so what does
*that* say?).

I also have grave doubts about the relative trustworthiness of Microsoft.
Umpteen times bitten, umpteenth+1 times shy...

(Humorous sideline: the Outlook spellchecker just took exception to "WinXP",
suggesting that I must have meant "Wimp" :-)

Bob Jarvis
Compuware @ Timken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edmund Ronald [mailto:eronald at cmapx.polytechnique.fr]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 10:15 PM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: M$ banging nails into java's coffin?
> 
> 
> Good riddance. Maybe someone else will get the job done better than
> Sun with its (C++)-- ...
> 
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> > 
> > See...
> > 
> > 
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2790355,00.html?
chkpt=zdhpnews01
> 
> tim
>