Tracy R Reed wrote:
Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
However, in this instance, the ad hominem has merit. Microsoft is a
convicted monopolist and has engaged in huge amounts of dirty tricks
to force their will upon a sometimes unwilling market.
Absolutely. I am amazed at what a short memory the IT business has. We
have been screwed over so many times and people keep going back for more.
C# and the CLR aren't advanced enough over Java and the JVM to risk
This is especially true now that Java and the JVM are genuinely open
source.
Can we expect to see an rpm that comes with RedHat which installs java
sometime soon so I don't have to manually download it from Sun and
install it?
It already comes with Fedora 8. It's called Iced Tea.
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/IcedTea>. It's not exactly the
same, but works for providing Java for projects like Open Office.
Gus
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