Dean_Swan at Mitel.COM wrote:

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> Alan Lovejoy wrote on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:07:00 -0700
> > Jecel>I don't understand - Sun wasn't able to utterly kill Self in 1995
> > > because they *had* previously released it all as open source.
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> Well, Sun has demonstrated the ability to kill things quite dead. 
>  Remember NeWS?  Such a shame.  So Gosling went off and tried to 
> recreate the glory of NeWS in Oak (becomes Java).  Sigh....
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>         -Dean
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I'd have to say he missed the mark by quite a wide margin :-(
I bought a second-hand Sun 3/60 so I could run NeWS....

David