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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake)
Date: 1997/08/29
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Date: 1997-08-29T00:00:00+00:00
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Mike Coffin says

<<Rather than rely on sources that are notoriously unreliable when it
comes to technical information, how about just going to the source?>>

Several people on this newsgroup have (very reasonably) cautioned that
newspapers may not be the best source of information. I would like to
suggest that neither is the PR department of the company affected, which
is of course working to put the best possible spin on this situation!