Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

Posted Sep 30, 2010 9:04 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros by marcH
Parent article: Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

This is not the same.

You could also argue any random network protocol is documented because one can use network analysis tools on it to find its innards.

Carrez: The real problem with Java in Linux distros

Posted Oct 6, 2010 9:33 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

> This is not the same.

Please elaborate?

> You could also argue any random network protocol is documented because one can use network analysis tools on it to find its innards.

No, this is not the same :-)

You are not doing any kind of justice to DependencyFinder with this poor analogy. Unlike DependencyFinger, a network analysis tool:
- requires you to run the software
- will provide very incomplete "documentation"

I think I might guess what your point is but please elaborate better.