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Re:The long strange trip to Java (1996) by InfiniteRand on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:03AM (#30614462)
The Wikipedia article has the corporate history behind that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starwave
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Re:The long strange trip to Java (1996) by thwawayway on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @10:42AM (#30615661)
It also has some account of the pedophile who wrote this article’s conviction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Naughton
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Re:The long strange trip to Java (1996) by belter on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:14PM (#30617113)
He was on a private Disney jet...is that were the Java Handbook link comes from?
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Re:The long strange trip to Java (1996) by snowman-yelling on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:34PM (#30617481)
No, the Disney link comes from Disney acquiring the Starwave company that Naughton was associated with.

Wow on him being a pedophile though. This story got weirder and weirder.

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