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Whit Diffie Comments On .NET security

Posted by timothy on from the lack-thereof dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Whit Diffie and Susan Landu (both of Sun Microsystems) comment on why .NET is a bad idea and is in many ways in conflict with the US political struture and ideals." This is a good read, but of course Sun has their own plans and motivations in this field.

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  1. Re: Proprietarity by Zeinfeld · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Not. Sun has been completely open about every aspect of java;

    To the poiunt of sicking its lawyers on companies that have the temerity to develop their own extensions in their own way.

    The point of having open source is so that you have control. With Java the control is firmly under the thumb of Sun. Ergo, Java is not open, nor will it ever be open if Sun gets its way.

    It isn't just Microsoft who have been shut out of any influence on how the language develops. It has from start to finish been a sun only program.

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