On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 01:11:46PM -0500, Josh Welch wrote: > While I understand it is fairly fashionable to rail against all things > commercial and/or proprietary in any Linux forum, what the heck is wrong > with wanting something that works with minimal futzing around? Yes! Sun, and Josh, please give me Java for my Linux PowerPC and Linux Sparc machines. [IBM started a _BETA_ of Java 5.0 just last month.] So much for write once, run everywhere! > Sun's proprietary JDK works and works well, or as well as Java works. It > was fairly trivial to install, and all other products which depend on > Java behaved as expected. I've tried fooling around with the GNU JDK, > much to my annoyance. > > I like free software, as in speech and beer, but sometimes I care more > about something working well and in a fashion that I expect than I care > about the freedom of said software. Perhaps that is unenlightened, but > I've got shit to do and most of it needs to be done now rather than later. > > That being said, I need to get back at it. Definitely. florin -- Don't question authority: they don't know either! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20051010/eb60db57/attachment.pgp