FC: Microsot: pissed about Java

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Date:          Wed, 02 Dec 1998 17:24:43 -0500
To:            politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From:          Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject:       FC: Microsot: pissed about Java
Reply-to:      declan@well.com

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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