I wonder what would have happened, though. Would the market decide that being platform-agnostic is more important than using MS dev tools? Would developers jus

I 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.