On Tuesday 25 December 2001 11:44, you wrote:
> But why doesn't Mandrake Linux install the Java runtime environment to
> start with?
Probably because it is not free (in the FSF sense of the word), but a
proprietary product licensed at no charge (for now) by Sun.
>Surely everybody wants to use it, right?
^^^^^^^
Not really, it's the first thing I switch off whenever I install a browser
on any OS. Bandwidth is precious and costly down here and the fewer silly
pieces of eye-candy I have clogging it up, the better.
Of course I am not entirely consistent in this. My addiction to
doonesbury.com finally made me cave in and install Flash!
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