Christian Rogel <[email protected]> writes: > I found a bit unsensitive Frederik Ramm's assumption that folks > "willfully chained to their Hardware/OS supplier and that supplier is > unwilling to release Java6 for your platform, it may be time to finally > ditch that supplier" (he maybe missed typing a smiley, however).
No, it seems quite clear that he's serious, and, given that anyone uses Java, reasonably so. Life marches on with libraries and language versions, and not moving along isn't really an option. The great irony is that the complaints about Apple not supplying Java 1.6 should really be directed at JOSM's use of a non-Free language implementation. The real bug is that JOSM is dependent on a non-Free JDK, instead of relying on a widely portable implementation available under an open source license. In other words (to be inflammatory) the JOSM community is willfully chained to a non-Free language implementation. (Yes, I know about openjdk, and I've tried to run josm and mkgmap under it on NetBSD/i386. So far I'm not having a successful experience.)
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