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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by 10ren on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @01:41AM (#690998)
Sounds like a way to enforce a standard, for compatibility, so that (eg) a C# program will run on any C# implementation. Java has similar with its runtime redistribution policy, and licensees.
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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by smakz on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @03:15AM (#691076)
Which Microsoft famously tried to circumvent with J++.
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Re:Miguel De Icaza: Microsoft promises to never sue anyone r... by dantheman on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @09:27AM (#691406)
You have to remember that Java sucks. Sun was very closed to suggestions and improvements, and until C# came along wasn't really doing much with the language. J++ with improvements eventually turned into C# which is far superior to Java.
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