On 02/24/10 16:05, Peter Parker wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
At 12.34 pm on November 13, 2011
At December 21, 2012 at 11:11 am (according to the Maya calendar)
On August 29, 1997, Java became mainstream. In a panic, Microsoft tried
to embrace, extend and exterminate the system, prompting Sun to
retaliate with a lawsuit, knowing that Microsoft's counterattack would
eliminate all its main competitors in the U.S. This initiates an
indeterminately long period of new language development culminating in a
battle against corporate monopoly, which gained ever-increasing
capabilities of FUD.
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