- From
- Bill Gates
- Sent
- Monday, September 30, 1996 9:36 PM
- To
- Nathan Myhrvold
- Cc
- Aaron Contorer
- Subject
- Java runtime becomes the operating system
I am worry a lot about how great Java/Javabeans and all the runtime work they are doing is and how much excitement this is generating. I am literally losing sleep over this issue since together with a move to more server based applications it seems like it could make it easy for people to do competitive operating systems.
The next paragraph is curious too.
I am very interested to get your thoughts on this. Prior to the advanced work you are driving what kind of defenses do we have against this? I certainly havent’ come up with enough to relax about the situation and it is undermining my creativity.
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