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by brettj

7/21/01 11:44:03 AM

2 new articles. A call to arms goes out.

Here's a thought. Would you want to be the only PC OEM that ships their machines without Java installed? What kind of pressure can MSFT put on PC makers in order to get them not to "promote" Java?

[link|http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-07-20-013-20-NW-MS|Three on Java and Microsoft: From Open Letters to an Unpleasant Tonya Harding Analogy]

Jul 20, 2001, 18 :52 UTC
Microsoft has announced that Java won't be shipping as part of Windows XP (unless newly "liberated" OEM's choose to put there) which raises some questions regarding the meaning of this move. Here are three articles addressing the issue from different angles, including mention of a grassroots organization of developers protesting the decision, an open letter to OEM's asking them to make sure Java is included with the machines they sell, and an item that says a Java-less WinXP is roughly analagous to Tonya Harding clouting the competition on the knee:

Monopoly fallout - No Java in WinXP - (Andrew Grygus) - (16) - July 18, 2001, 11:51:35 AM EDT

Online story link - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:36:47 AM EDT

Not so. - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - July 18, 2001, 02:39:54 PM EDT

actually, I'd say - (SpiceWare) - July 18, 2001, 02:53:13 PM EDT

The Java Jive - (orion) - July 18, 2001, 06:01:15 PM EDT

This move will propel Java like never before. - (brettj) - (10) - July 19, 2001, 10:48:19 AM EDT

Way, way overly optomistic. - (Andrew Grygus) - (9) - July 19, 2001, 12:06:29 PM EDT

Won't site administrators be able to warn IE users of this? - (brettj) - (4) - July 19, 2001, 12:24:55 PM EDT

Already possible - (Fearless Freep) - July 19, 2001, 02:04:33 PM EDT

Already possible - (Fearless Freep) - (1) - July 19, 2001, 02:04:34 PM EDT

I might stand corrected, then. - (addison) - July 19, 2001, 02:19:55 PM EDT

Not really. - (addison) - July 19, 2001, 02:04:55 PM EDT

One comment. - (inthane-chan) - July 19, 2001, 01:43:20 PM EDT

ZD Net's take on the Java news - (brettj) - (1) - July 19, 2001, 06:21:23 PM EDT

Re: Another view on MS's actions - (dmarker2) - July 19, 2001, 08:39:27 PM EDT

Not if Sun plays it's card right - (Don) - July 20, 2001, 12:20:31 PM EDT

2 new articles. A call to arms goes out. - (brettj) - July 21, 2001, 11:44:03 AM EDT

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