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Well, RMS was right, after all...

Well, RMS was right, after all...

Posted Dec 28, 2011 9:02 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: The "White Label Office" release candidate by raven667
Parent article: The "White Label Office" release candidate

RMS explaned what's wrong with java long ago. The funny thing is that while he changed the article when IcedTea was released it was quite obviously premature as Oracle later showed.

You can not use Java without fear of reprisal and thus all Apache projects which promote Java should be put in "deeply negative for free software" bin. Sad, but true.

The biggest disappointment here is Android: it's tainted with Java, too - and this is direct result of ASF's work.


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