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Huzon Furst <furst@fbc.org> writes:

> This business of Sun's wanting to hold on the the Java name as a
> trademark, and the ISO voters objecting to it, isn't this really about
> marketing?

It's all about sour grapes. The other companies are ticked off
that Sun is getting the limelight.

Seems to me that perhaps some of the complaintants (Compaq, MS
and Intel for example) aren't exactly lily-white themselves.

> It seems to me Sun could either:
> 
> 1) come up with a different trademarked name for their own distribution
> - how about "SunJava"? OR

Why should they? They own the Java trademark already. They can
distribute their version of Java under their trademark.

> 2) come up with a different name for the spec, which it will not hold
> trademark on - how about "JavaSpec".

Why not Java?

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Windows NT 4.0, or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.