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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GOMEZ Henri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 2:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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
> � 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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