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But that's not being locked out of Java. On the contrary, it's the exact opposite and business as usual for Microsoft: take a perfectly good cross-platform, ope
by npsimons 12y ago
But that's not being locked out of Java. On the contrary, it's the exact opposite and business as usual for Microsoft: take a perfectly good cross-platform, open standard, and mess with it until it locks out everyone else, so your customers are stuck with using your inferior products.
- crpatino 12y agoThe locking out came when Sun sued Microsoft on copyright infringement (or trademark infringement, I don't recall), then they were forbidden from continuing to enhance and offer the product, but end up still providing minimum (security) support to the existing use base. C# is the salvage of that wasted effort, plus a number of lessons learned and improvements that MS was able to implement and market under a different name.