On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 05:00:53PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > App Deb <[email protected][email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Steven Susbauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sun was able to successfully sue Microsoft for similar reasons > > > in 1997 (incomplete implementation of the Java standard). > > If I remember correctly, the Microsoft Java VM was abandoned > > because of this and everyone had to switch to the Sun one. > > My understanding was that M$ did not abandon their engine, but they > had to quit calling it Java(TM). Didn't they just rename it to .Net?
Some of the technology may have made it into the .NET framework, and C# may in some respects be quite similar to Java, but .NET is most certainly not Java. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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