On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:12:32 +0200, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]>
wrote:
I wrote a nasty comment but I don't think he'll publish it. In the
meantime I pasted it into pastebin
http://pastebin.com/NuvqLWBW
Well, the truth is in the middle. The second part of your comment doesn't
hold as a valid objection, since you're mentioning the fact that Java is
being used to develop software. This is very true, but the OP was talking
about the _end user_'s perspective of Java, and honestly there's not _a
lot_ of thing. The first part of your comment is very good, because it
demonstrates that while there's not _a lot_ of Java in the end user's
perspective, is not that almost-zero level that many repeat. For the
record, a few days ago I subscribed to blurb.com, a service used to
publish printed books e.g. out of a PDF file, and the file uploader +
pre-verifier is, figure out, an applet (but there's a Flash alternative).
In the end, from the user perspective it's sadly true that Java is less
relevant. Unfortunately, stupid behaviours such as Apple posting so in
late a patch to a security flaw that was ready months earlier (at least
this is how I understood flashback's history) are just growing the
perception that Java is less and less useful and more and more dangerous.
In any case, this doesn't change a lot in my point of view. Desktop
applications can be distributed by embedding a Java runtime, so they are
not impaired by the fact that the user disables Java.
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