Re: This Java TRADEMARK hangup

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From: Philip Brown
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:00

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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:22:45 -0700, jim@pagesmiths.com wrote:
>The real issue that will cause Sun to lose in the second vote just as
>they did in the first is that Sun wants to retain maintenance of the
>standard definition so that they can continue to revise the Java API
>singlehandedly ("open" being a word which means exactly what they want
>it to mean).  Nearly every ISO member commented that Sun would need to
>release maintenance to some other organization, such as an ISO JTC1
>subcommittee, in order to be accepted as the Submitter.  Sun's answer is
>that they will not.

Hmm.
Well, maybe they should turn it over to a 4-company committee.
Its members being
SunMicro, SunSoft, SunService, and JavaSoft
That's not a single organization any more, so they can't complain. Right?
;->



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From: phil.s1@bolthole.com.no-bots (Philip Brown)
Subject: Re: This Java TRADEMARK hangup
Date: 1997/09/23
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