Alan Baratz, the president of what used to be known as JavaSoft and is now referred to as Sun’s Java software division said yesterday that back in 1996 a developer who worked for a company other than Sun and Microsoft Corp, offered up suggestions for change to the language to a multi-vendor Java experts group that Sun had established to advise it on the way forward. The changes, the nature of which we don’t really know, were rejected by the group as there was a better solution available, according to Baratz. That developer was later recruited by Microsoft and is said by Baratz to be partly responsible for these Windows- specific changes in Microsoft’s Java virtual machine that have driven Sun to slap a further lawsuit on Microsoft.
