keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>"And if corporate America led the mid-1990s charge to adopt the desktop,
>giving Microsoft its monopoly control, it is Japan that is leading the
>adoption of wireless-enabled, portable devices. And this time, the key
>software is Java, made by Sun Microsystems of Palo Alto, California. "
While I offer no defense of the egregious Cringely, the above quotation is
rather puzzling it itself. Why, exactly, is it framed as a conditional
proposition?
And surely it was not corporate America that "gave" Microsoft its monopoly
control. It has already been decided by a US court that Microsoft's
behaviour was such that it created an illegal monopoly - a fact that in
outline was blindingly obvious to most people long before the court made
its judgement. So "took", rather than was given. On the evidence you offer
I am not sure that Scuka has that much to learn from Cringely in the
"overblown, inaccurate rhetoric" stakes.
And to bring this back onto topic, has SUN's behaviour over JAVA in
relation to keitai been such that it is open to a similar charge? (That is
a neutrally framed question and a request for a neutrally framed response
to it.)
Or is it that many people (hacks in particular) need a bogey man to point
to? (Sorry - "bogey-person".)
Nick
Received on Sat Mar 9 03:26:45 2002