[Nottingham] Re: Open vs Closed java on linux

Martin Garton martin at stupids.org
Thu May 25 16:43:14 BST 2006


On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 16:38 +0100, Martin wrote:

> Is Java still Java after the "embrace and enhance" attack by Microsoft?

That all died a death years ago IIRC.

> Or is it now so platform dependant as to be "Windows + kludges to fit
> any others"?...

It is currently sometimes platform dependent. It depends on the Sun java
platform.

In terms of OS independence, I would say a large majority of widely used
java apps are not too bad.

-- 
Martin.





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