Similarly, Bertrand Meyer killed Eiffel by trying to charge money for the compiler, and missing the nascent OSS movement. Java was an inferior language in a few

Similarly, Bertrand Meyer killed Eiffel by trying to charge money for the compiler, and missing the nascent OSS movement. Java was an inferior language in a few important ways but the compiler and runtime were free. He could not compete with both C++ and Java. A number of people in that era thought this was a fad and that business as usual would prevail.