[marcosdumay]

Well, the fact that everybody though the same, and this was hyped at the Netscape marketing material surely helped making their mind.

And once they destroyed Netscape, Sun created Java with the same goal.

[ido]

And Sun sued Microsoft when they tried to EEE Java shortly thereafter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B#Sun's_litigatio...