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Microsoft were destroying Java with their own implementation, which was not compatible with normal Java. They were changing the language, just as they tried to
by megablast 16y ago
Microsoft were destroying Java with their own implementation, which was not compatible with normal Java. They were changing the language, just as they tried to do with HTML in internet explorer and active-x, so we still see people having to use ie6.
Sun had to sue Microsoft, before they changed Java so much it was no longer platform agnostic (or it was way less agnostic).
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- MartinCron 16y agoI wonder what would have happened, though. Would the market decide that being platform-agnostic is more important than using MS dev tools? Would developers just have to work (around) with an incompatible platform, as they do with IE. I wonder if the MS rift caused more harm to Java than letting Microsoft change its implementation.