opensource java..no sun needed [LWN.net]

opensource java..no sun needed

Posted Jun 19, 2003 8:22 UTC (Thu) by tarvin (subscriber, #4412)
In reply to: opensource java..no sun needed by judge
Parent article: Java and Open Source

"judge" said:

"Just trying distributing an opensource java app and see how many
users don't have a jre installed.
This makes making your software apt-gettable very very hard."

I agree. The Java mantra should actually be "write once, run nowhere". Sure, all LWN readers have no problem finding and installing a JRE/JDK. But on most "end-user" systems, you don't see any modern JRE.

And that's not only Microsoft's fault.

Sun: It's about time to make JDK open source.

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