On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 05:51:27 GMT, JTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>Ah yes, looks like what's left of Sun Microsystems, Peter van der Linden, and
>the Gang Of Fourteen are getting so lonely for me over in the Java groups that
>they're willing to illegally impersonate me here.
>
>They didn't listen to me either, you know.
You used to troll the Java groups too? Oh, God this is too funny.
JTK spends his life on the Java groups. He probably tells them that Java
is too slow, uses up too much memory, and is badly designed. He probably
also adds that it's too tightly controlled by Sun. The language will
obviously never get anywhere.
While he's ranting, Java becomes a raging success. Microsoft, after a long
dirty-tricks campaign trying to embrace and extend Java, end up feeling so
threatened by it that they have to go back to the drawing board and invent
their own knock-off version (C#) to lure Java developers back to using
their platform.
So JTK gets upset, and finds something else to criticise. He moves on
to tell Mozilla developers that Mozilla is too slow, uses too much memory
and is badly designed. He also adds that it's too tightly controlled by
Netscape. Mozilla will obviously never get anywhere.
Charles Miller
