[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 02-01-2010 14:54, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<4b3e874d$0$281$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?=<arne at vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>> On 01-01-2010 16:12, John Vottero wrote:
>>> If Windows was about "not being different", they would have stuck with
>>> Java instead of inventing the .NET Framework.
>>
>> They had some legal problems with SUN.
>
>     There legal problems stemmed from trying not to keep to the standard,
>     which Sun owns.  Typical MicroSoft attitude:  "do what WE say".

They made a big mistake. One thing is adding extensions to the
standard. They could have gotten away with that. But not implementing
all the standard features go them in problems. And it cost them. 20M$
if I remember correct.

Arne