RE: SUN complains because there is no Java in XP...

["Gonyou, Austin" <au...@coremetrics.com>]

Partially, but perhaps mention of where to get it readily so you don't get
the screwed up version would be in order?

-- 
Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect, CCNA
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin@coremetrics.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: GOMEZ Henri [mailto:hgomez@slib.fr]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 2:37 PM
> To: general@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: RE: SUN complains because there is no Java in XP...
> 
> 
> >http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21285.html
> >
> >There was discussion here about this last week.
> 
> It's better for all of us to have no JAVA preinstalled in
> XP instead of having installed by default a brain damaged JDK 
> à la J++.
> 
> >It seems to me that SUN has nothing to complain about.  No one 
> >(no significantly
> >large percentage of users) uses Java for client side use.  Why 
> >would anyone want
> >Java in XP by default.  I mean they can only fit 650M or so on 
> >a CD and the JDK
> >is starting to get pretty big :)
> 
> And it will be worste with JDK 1.4. With the rate of update in JDK
> we could think that in 2 or 3 JDK release we may finish with a full 
> Java OS....
> 
> >So the moral of the story?  Open Source Java, gain 100% 
> >industry acceptance and
> >the next time MS ships an OS, so many people will be using 
> >Java, they will have
> >no choice but to include it.
> 
> +1
> 
> >Hope SUN is paying attention...  this is important.
> 
> I doubt that Sun will ever OSS Java. But they must learn from
> previous mistake. What had happened if Sun had put SunOs or Solaris 
> in OpenSource 10 years before ?
> 
> They avoided to have Linux so strong today (even if as Linux Hacker 
> since the first time, I love it and won't convert to others 
> Unix today)
> 
> 
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