Re: serious lawsuite idea against windows...

From: Ivan Marsh (annoyed_at_you.now)
Date: 09/29/04


Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 10:57:39 -0500

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 00:39:23 +0000, dude wrote:

> I was, and currently am, on my windows XP box and I was trying out the
> Firefox browser for windows when I discovered that java applets weren't
> working.
>
> They worked just fine in IE and I had not downloaded the JVM from sun
> yet.
>
> Of course I went to sun and downloaded it and it works fine now. So here
> is the lawsuite.
>
> Microsoft says IE is a part of windows right? So if IE has a JVM in it
> shouldn't that work for any browser you install?
>
> Maybe I'm reaching but I thought it would be cool... ;)

A browser without a java plug-in will not run java.

Write a plug-in for firefox that utilizes the IE JVM and firefox will work
with the IE JVM.

Reaching is being generous.

-- 
i.m.
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