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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: Microsot: pissed about Java
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- Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 07:16:29 +0100
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Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 17:24:43 -0500
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: Microsot: pissed about Java
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/16589.html
Gates Testimony Goes Thunk
by by Declan McCullagh
2:10 p.m. 2.Dec.98.PST
WASHINGTON -- Bill Gates acknowledged
that Microsoft planned to begin "pissing
on" Java wherever possible to erode
support for the technology in a
videotaped deposition played Wednesday
during the software company's antitrust
trial.
A testy Gates at first said he didn't know
what a subordinate "specifically means by
'pissing on'" in a May 1997 email he
received, though Gates later
acknowledged the term probably had its
usual meaning.
[...]
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