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Microsoft's C# (Sharp) & .NET -- A Heads Up

Thaddeus L. Olczyk olczyk at interaccess.com
Sat Jul 1 00:40:10 EDT 2000 
On 28 Jun 2000 06:02:09 GMT, thomas at xs4all.nl (Thomas Wouters) wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 04:05:21 GMT, Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
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>>> On top of that, very likely that if SUN sues they win.
>
>>Ridiculous.
>
>Very much so. But it wouldn't be suprising just the same, given the American
>patenting/registration practices and the average american courthouse ;-)
>
>Overseas-ly y'rs,
>	Thomas
Virtually all SUN has to do is pull some of the demo programs out of
Microsofts manual. Write the equivalent code in python, perl, C++,
pascal, and a few other languages. Compare them side by side. A fairly
sophisticated person can see that it's resemblance to Java. Look at
the law judges are sophisticated enough. Given that Microshit is being
sued by SUN for their abuse of Java, I don't think it will be hard at
all for  SUN to convince a judge that all C# is, is a variant of Java
with tons of proprietary crap glued on and the label changed.
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