[antlr-interest] Re: Managed to compile under .Net !!

[frankhileman]

--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "Anthony W Youngman" 
<Anthony.Youngman at E...> wrote:
> Where's the legal stuff saying it CAN'T be compatible?
> 
> The whole legal fuss was over the fact that MS was calling their 
stuff
> "Java" when it couldn't pass the certification tests, and was
> *deliberately* making their implementation appear to produce 
portable
> code when it was stuffed with Win32 extensions.
> 
> As far as I know, there is ABSOLUTELY NO BARRIER to MS including
> Java-compatibility stuff. The two points at issue are that MS is 
acting
> like a spoilt brat, and that Sun got an injunction saying that MS
> couldn't call it "Java" unless it could pass the Java-compatibility
> tests (or in other words "don't abuse our trademark").

If Sun had put Java into ISO or ECMA certification, with no 
trademark on the name, all the subsequent legal crapola would 
probably never have happened. We would be using third-party tests to 
determine conformance to an ISO standard. Sun did more to kill Java 
than anyone, I think.


 

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