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so they "won", did they?

so they "won", did they?

Posted Aug 17, 2006 17:03 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Better late than never by NRArnot
Parent article: Coming soon: a free Java

Microsoft responded by creating an alternative Java called C# and an alternative byte-coded virtual machine framework called .NET, rendering Sun's control of Java meaningless, and there's a free implementation called Mono that runs on Linux and Solaris. Now Sun has to make Java free to stop Mono from taking over Linux/Unix/BSD land (at least, taking over that portion of *nix land that finds the Java model attractive).


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