Re: (newbie)sun vs. apple....
Re: (newbie)sun vs. apple....
- Subject: Re: (newbie)sun vs. apple....
- From: Adam Thayer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 06:03:39 -0700
On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 07:19 PM, Jonas Roel wrote:
is it true that Sun does not support the Java Cocoa Implementation? I
heard that Sun does not even support Java on MacOSX? Why is that? You'd
think that they'd get together amid all of M$ dominance....
Well, if by 'support' you mean, 'write the code' then yes... Sun doesn't
support it. Apple has actually picked up the ball getting MacOS X Java
support so that when 10.0 came out, it wouldn't be yet another missing
feature. The Java Cocoa implementation is a MacOS X-only API, so why
would Sun support it? Is Sun expected to support Microsoft's
Windows-only extensions to the Java API?
In short, Sun doesn't have to support work other companies have done. 1)
because Sun doesn't have the knowledge of the inner bits and pieces of
that work, 2) Sun would be loosing money supporting a product that
brings them little to no extra revenue.
Plus, Sun has enough of their own financial troubles because of Java and
Microsoft without having to spend money on an alliance.
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