On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> The more I think about it the more it makes sense to silently install Java
> to wherever the user asks to put Freenet.  That is, if we're going to
> silently install Java anywhere.  I wasn't aware there was a 'standard

Java is distributed under license.  That license requires that the end
user acknowledge Sun's copyright.  Silent installation is a copyright
violation, it breaks the license.

> place' to put Java.  Last time I tried installing Java (the SDK as it
> happens), the installer asked me where I wanted to put it.  As it turned
> out it got it wrong, but that's my choice, not the installer's choice.  It
> suggested J:\Program Files, but I use that for OS-tied applications.  It
> should have been F:\Devel, but of course the installer had no way of
> knowing this without asking me first.

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