[smm11]

For a brief moment NeXT was trying to spread Openstep far and wide. What a future everyone could have had, rather than those locked into the Mac ecosystem. Which is most in this country, actually, so same thing I guess.

[pjmlp]

Many Java haters have little idea that Java itself and JavaEE were heavily influenced by Sun working alongside NeXT in such attempts.

https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Objects_Everywhe...