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| Authored by: PJ on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 10:26 AM EDT |
| Thank you. I have it.
And just in case anyone ever again says that what
Google
did is the same as what Microsoft did to Java, let me highlight this
Comes exhibit that I noticed as I was putting your text into the
collection:
2768 - From: Russ
Arun
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 6:13 PM
To: Prashant
Sridharan
Subject: RE: More Questions about ADO in java...
Cross
platform is a red herring that is not worth spending time on. Based all the
numbers we see it is interestingly more irrelevant now than it was 5 years ago
when I joined MS.
However we need to coopt the best
lessons from Java into Windows.
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From: Prashant
Sridharan
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 1997 6:07 PM
To: Russ
Arun
Subhect: RE: More Questions about ADO in java...
If we, as a
company, are interested in promoting Windows, why bother with AFC? In my own
opinion (apart from Ironwood, J/Direct, or any of the other politically-charged
topics now), we are horribly inconsistent in this regard.
Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal
the Java language.
That said, have we ever taken a look at how long
it would take Microsoft to build a cross-platform Java that did work? Naturally,
we would never do it, but it would give us some idea of how
much time we have to work with in killing Sun's Java.
Prashant
Sridharan
Visual J++ Product
Manager
preshant@microsoft.com
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 03 2012 @ 05:29 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: dio gratia on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 02:11 AM EDT |
End User License Agreement
Microsoft Advanced Systems
Format (ASF) Specification version 1.2
IMPORTANT—READ CAREFULLY: This
Microsoft Agreement (“Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you (either an
individual or a single entity) and Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) for the
version of the Microsoft specification identified above which you are about to
download (“Specification”). By downloading, copying, or otherwise using the
Specification, you agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you do
not agree to the terms of this Agreement, do not download, copy or otherwise use
the Specification.
This contained in the specification but not
presented prior to download. An agreement is a meeting of minds, isn't it? How
could that be demonstrated in that case? Real drive by license of adhesion. No
"about to download" about it.
Each page footer:
© 2012
Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Any reproduction, modification, or
distribution is subject to the terms of the End User License Agreement
accompanying this specification.
The specification is dated
January 2012 and the EULA TERM expires without notice on January 1, 2012, in
other words you have no license, nor obligations under the
license.
Microsoft appears a left hand, right hand conversationally
challenged issue. Someone hand that man a throwing chair, please.
Oh, in
light of the lack of a valid license I'd like to make it perfectly clear this is
parody. To quote a
Shakespearean character "I do mock you, Sir".
See Advanced
Systems Format (ASF) Specification, a Microsoft web page noting the lack of
notice for the expired license. There are a couple of other mock worthy things
of note. It may be of small wonder that in fifteen years it hasn't quite caught
on as an industry standard (he said, mockingly).
Apparently Apple didn't
bite back.
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