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Re: Big Brother is Real


Martin,

I'm not sure I get your drift. I do mostly Java myself, but on every system except MacOS one must install the Java SDK or runtime separately. I doubt Sun likes that state of affairs and as a Java developer, neither do I, but it's how things are right now.

Microsoft dispensed with Java because it's in a legal and market battle with Sun. The JVM it was shipping was horridly out-of-date anyway and not useful for serious Java application developers.

Anyway, in this thread we're talking about licensing terms and privacy, not OS quality.

Randall Schulz


At 07:38 2003-04-01, you wrote:


If XP is such a good OS why did they strip out the JVM? Some of us prefer writing component based Java over heavy and slow monolithic Visual Basic apps. I would purchase XP except I want to Manage my registry instead of Microsoft.

'Nuf Said.

Martin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Randall R Schulz" <rrschulz at cris dot com>
To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 8:29 AM
Subject: Big Brother is Real


> At 07:14 2003-04-01, you wrote: > >On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > > > > > ... > > > > > > XP is the first rocksolid Windows OS. > > > [snip] > > > Thorsten > > > >... with completely unrealistic licensing (see the last paragraph of > ><http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html#office>). > > > OH. MY. GOD. > > I installed SP3 on my Win2K. Ignorance is NOT bliss. > > I guess it really is time to move to Linux. > > > > Igor > > > Randall Schulz


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