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...Microsystems Chief Scientist Bill Joy, who designed Berkeley UNIX and the Java programming language, now says he is taking on a much more difficult project--saving humans from extinction...
...goal of the breakup is not only to create multiple competing operating systems, but to reduce the possibility that future software companies will be able to build a similar monopoly. The suit was designed to prevent Microsoft domination of "middleware" like Java and Netscape. Middleware allows software developers to write programs that function equally across different operating systems, making an operating system itself less relevant. After the breakup, the applications portion of Microsoft would have incentives for compatibility with as many platforms as possible. Linux (a Unix-like operating system) would become a much more viable operating system...
...staff believes that Sun's cross-platform Java programming language alleviates this problem. However it is not clear that writing in Java is any better a state of the industry than writing applications for Windows. Java is less powerful, and at least for the moment slower than traditional programming languages. This is not to say that the government should force the industry to adopt one platform over another, or break down the benefits of a standard...
...paid. Street signs and numbers are erratic. If you ask, "Where is the IBM shop?" you will hear something like this: "Find the old Swiss Pastry Shop that was bombed in 1978, go across the street, turn right at the Pepsi-Cola sign; make a left where Ali's Java Shack is; go into the car dealership and ask them; they will tell you where the IBM shop...
Microsoft's vaunted "innovation" was often no more than creativity in imagining new ways of damaging competitors. To eliminate the danger from Java, a platform-independent product of competitor Sun Microsystems, Microsoft created a Windows-only version of Java, designed its programming software so that developers would "unwittingly" write Windows-only software and used technical information about Windows as a bargaining chip to force other companies to distribute its version of Java rather than Sun's more compatible version. "These actions," Jackson wrote, "cannot be described as competition on the merits, and they did not benefit consumers...