[TriLUG] This is not good

[Lee Fickenscher]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> "In fact you might interpret the version of Java
> in the Google App Engine as the first major fork of Java (that
> intentionally deviates from the defacto standard)."
>
> Didn't we already go round and round on this dance with J++ back in the
> day?  Or was the problem with J++ was that MS was trying to commercialize a
> fork of a open source project?  It was a while ago.. details are fuzzy.
>

IIRC it was actually a trademark issue. They weren't using the official java
but where presenting it as if they were. Using the "cup" and whatnot.
Could have been more, but that is what I seem to remember of it.