yeah - hence my desire for the distro to come from somewhere else eventually. But for consumers, its still not good enough. Its a real shame to see all the consumer JRE hard work done now going to waste.
On Nov 11, 8:24 pm, Joe Data <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 11, 2:23 am, Joshua Marinacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The addons to not increase the download size unless you choose the > > extra install. With the kernel the minimum install is greatly reduced > > from the previous JRE installs. > > > - Josh, on the go > > The problem is that it is opt-out - downloading the MSN toolbar is > checked by default, so if you just click through the process, you got > yourself a new toolbar. As the Inquirer points out, that probably got > Sun more money, although Eric "We'll put Java on the iPhone" Klein > from Sun claimed otherwise first (http://www.theregister.co.uk/ > 2008/11/10/sun_stows_ms_search_on_java). > > In my mind, Sun has a bad history of bundling its own products > (Netbeans, OpenOffice, Glassfish) with the JDK to increase market > share for said items. > > Karsten --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
