"Java goes commercial" = having to pay a royalty for the runtime.
your one up on me for alternatives where the supporting
libtaries/runtime are open or can be purchased.
of course I am more an open person. (PUN intended)
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David E Jones sent the following on 2/23/2011 2:12 PM:
Back to being serious: thank goodness technology has progressed far beyond such
things. They were ridiculously limited and required huge amounts of human
effort to create the simplest software, or meet the simplest needs.
I don't know what you mean by "Java goes commercial", IMO Java is already
commercial and efforts to move it toward being more open have been problematic. Either
way, if Java is compromised it will only open the way for something newer and better to
come along, and frankly there are already various decent alternatives.
-David
On Feb 23, 2011, at 1:14 PM, BJ Freeman wrote:
started wire wrapped s-100 system, 1n 1976 had a full 2k of 8bit memory with a
boot strap that I loaded with switches that then loaded a monitor from a
cassette tape. that gave a chance to enter my code in hex, that i wrote out on
paper, then saved it to cassette tape. That was my first OS.
Then there was exidy OS with rom packs for applications.
finally cpm with c code so could expand.
small c then pascal, then C#.
then a got a 5 1/4 drive with i86 board that mounted on it and got compiled cpm
for it. I really wanted an Apple. Closest I got was an amiga.
got Dos to work then windows 1.3
worked for a lot of early computer manufactures including apple and commodore.
still have pascal with the source code, so if and when Java goes commercial, I
will revert all code to pascal and Ai.
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David E Jones sent the following on 2/23/2011 12:37 PM:
That's why I still use DOS. You can learn everything there is to know about it
in a few weeks, and I got that out of the way nearly two decades ago. I'm a
happy camper.
-David
On Feb 23, 2011, at 12:19 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
The better tool is the one you know
Jacques
BJ Freeman wrote:
I still use netscape
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