From: devin@thecabal.org 
  
 On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:24:47 -0500, Jim Riley  wrote: 
  
 >  It also suggests that c# is a proprietary product of Microsoft, which 
 >  begs the question of why there is a need for a group for discussing 
 >  standarization independent of Microsoft? 
  
 A simple check will show this suggestion to be false, though.  There 
 is at least one non-Microsoft implementation of C# available now, though 
 not as full featured, and Microsoft has submitted CLI and C# to the ECMA 
 standards body. 
  
 The standards groups exist and the issues are real, even if the product 
 came from Microsoft initially. 
  
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 Devin L. Ganger  
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 natural course.  You, of course, don't want to impede that natural flow 
 by being in its way." -- overheard on the PyraMOO 
  
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