Huh? Wake up!

[Bruce Garrick]

Okay, 'chip', splain how ECMA ownership of C# makes this language propietary?
It is a standards group. One of the two groups that Java was NOT submitted
to. Because NO standards group has Java! Sun OWNs JAVA. Now THAT is propietary!
They refuse to give it over to any standards group because they are making
huge dollars licensing it. Microsoft has already relinquished control of
C# and CDL. Microsoft will have to license the language from ECMA just like
anyone else. This time next year C# will be running on Linux. And you won't
have to pay anyone to use it! Unlike Java where you MUST pay Sun for a license.
JAVA is about paying Sun lots of money for an crumby language and C# is about
coding with a standards based cross platform tool. Discount it at your peril.

[Paul Clapham]

Don't get upset, "proprietary" is just a word that computer people use when
they want to discount the importance of something. In the true sense of the
term, Microsoft Word is proprietary, but you'll never find anybody saying
that because in practice people would interpret that as calling it
unimportant and peripheral, which it obviously isn't.

In other words, "proprietary" is a term whose meaning has been debased
beyond recognition, and when you see it, just think "sloppy politics" and
skip to the next paragraph.

By the way, where do I send the money for my Java licence? I seem to have
missed the payment terms in the licence agreement...

Bruce Garrick <bfom33@aol.com> wrote in message
news:39bcee05$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Okay, 'chip', splain how ECMA ownership of C# makes this language
propietary?
> It is a standards group. One of the two groups that Java was NOT submitted
> to. Because NO standards group has Java! Sun OWNs JAVA. Now THAT is
propietary!
> They refuse to give it over to any standards group because they are making
> huge dollars licensing it. Microsoft has already relinquished control of
> C# and CDL. Microsoft will have to license the language from ECMA just
like
> anyone else. This time next year C# will be running on Linux. And you
won't
> have to pay anyone to use it! Unlike Java where you MUST pay Sun for a
license.
> JAVA is about paying Sun lots of money for an crumby language and C# is
about
> coding with a standards based cross platform tool. Discount it at your
peril.
>