Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: New in Java 7: JLayer Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 07:44:32 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <1PKdnV9XXeKKiErQnZ2dnUVZ_jidnZ2d@westnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net D2nT6xOHhbq4EvKi+EpRr5UXQ0mq6yXLZ0+bZXWg+QqWmi47BFCoV+Z6qMQy7prG7UB4kIYAwiCMoCpRC+LjSDOgxAZeP2OMBUdz0sTBjcLFNjWOV2Zl7ZreX6Z0/+ck NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 11:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="8M/mM8AhdJz8zVPwCoGllAkbCNl+jB/ojrg6XCTDxm+hHed9QPvbGsUOqXkWZe3Ki6Rmksgg2TdV2gKQOhSkPGJC+1QuVfikdL7+7V81yZbC8F7eVjBTIXp1DiSuKleZ"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:rQci8jTJB397EC/BKaeZvoKPXDI= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4407 awrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > Richard Maher wrote: >> Agreed but my 2c says the attitude that has held Applets back the most is >> the either/or mentality. > I wonder where that came from ... Sun’s litigiousness towards Microsoft, > perhaps? No, Lawrence. You assume Richard's point is correct and draw a generality from one action, Lawrence. Sun sued Microsoft once, AFAIK, and it was over an egregious violation of the Java license terms. In any event, Lawrence, there's no evidence that that lawsuit had any effect on the attitudes of Java programmers, nor that the attitude is as Richard described it, Lawrence. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg