Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 05:03:22 03/22/04
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On March 21, 2004 at 20:07:37, Peter Skinner wrote: >On March 21, 2004 at 19:06:06, Christophe Theron wrote: > >> b) but they did not go as far as forcing Microsoft to ship the standard >>version of Java with Windows. That's where is Sun is losing, because Microsoft >>can get away with murder (having spread a version of Java that was incompatible >>with the standard, effectively hurting the Java language). >> >> Christophe > >Hi Christophe, > >If people still want the Microsoft Virtual Java Machine that was "removed", it >is easily attainable on the internet. > Yes , this is still available from Microsoft site - but they were forced to stop furthur development on this and shipping of non-compliant versions. >I find the Sun release of Java to be slow, and bogs down even a 2Ghz machine. > Sun release used to be a reference implementation - more like a proof of concept. Ofcourse , once the JIT versions from 1.3 came up , they are much much better. >Run two identical computers side by side and have one use the Sun release and >the other use the MS release, and the MS release wins hands down. > You are comparing something that is running java 1.1 and running 1.4 ??? What is the point of comparing different versions ? >So far I am not losing out on anything. I have Java installed, and I don't have >any concerns. Lawyers can file all the papers they want, I am still going to use >the free software I want to use.. _no one_ can tell me differently. > You can create viruses in your comp - and no one will tell you anything unless you release them too :) Forgetting that , you will ermain locked in to a older implementation , which is not compliant with any of the newer specs. Pretty soon , you wont have most of the available functionality available. Most applet developers continue to support 1.1 which is why , you still dont have a problem, but this is going to change prety soon ... and then you would not be able to run most of the newer apps ! It is like saying , I will use only DOS 6.0 and I also want to run win32 apps :) Mridul >Peter
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