I truly couldn't agree more! Biologists have shown us time and time again that monocultures are far too vulnerable to external threats.
Your chosen platform may be OSX, or .NET, or it may be the JVM; it doesn't really matter... Ultimately, trying to keep out alternative languages is a doomed strategy, destined to cause the collapse of your favourite ecosystem if you should "succeed". 2010/10/28 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > > > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Rob Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If that's the case, exactly *what* threat does Java currently pose for the >> consumer desktop, specifically Apple's desktop? > > > The fact that developers can write Java apps on Windows or Linux and have > these magically run on Apple hardware without even needing to buy it. > > On top of that, Jobs has this obsession with "purity of tools" that has him > convinced that the only way to write good Mac OS applications should be to > use tools provided by Apple exclusively. > > -- > Cédric > > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
