OT: Alternatives to Firefox and Google

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:41:29AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote

> Java never intended to just run on top of windows.

  If you want to run on 100% of desktops, 90% of desktops (i.e. Windows)
is your main target.

> By running on everything sun hoped to take over everything and
> eventually sell people machines that just ran java natively (and
> hence faster and cheaper probably).

  And you think Microsoft didn't realize that?  They reacted just as
negatively as they did to IBM's OS/2 that ran Windows 3.1 as a DPMI
client.  If you're going to run a pseudo-OS on top of another OS, you
need the other OS not to be actively hostile to you.

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