Could Python supplant Java?

d2002xx d2002xx at myrealbox.com
Fri Aug 23 14:42:36 EDT 2002


> > Ah! lost words, it's "But why I *can't* do this on my box if I use
> > windows as OS?"
> 
> Because you don't have the source code to Windows as an OS. I'm not
> sure I understand why you'd even ask such a question.
> 
> Oh, and to answer your next series of dumb questions:
> 
> - You don't have the source because Microsoft doesn't sell it.
> 
> - Microsoft doesn't sell it because they own it and decided not to.
> 
> - Microsoft decided not to because they'd like to stay in business
> and
>   be able to pay their employees.
> 
> Soo..... What's hard about this concept?

No hard, nothing wrong, but I just hate this, and that's all :)



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