Java problem

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Thu Jan 3 16:54:23 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 10:42 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >>>>>   
> >>>>     You guys are both wrong. Fedora does ship F7 and F8 with a small 
> >>>> java version 1.5 which is too old for newer java programs, and that 
> >>>> broken icedtea that does nothing good. But light at the end of the 
> >>>> tunnel. Fedora can make the necessary changes to their design to allow 
> >>>> the method given on the Sun Site to work. I have been doing the work. 
> >>>> Look at my new messages on java.
> >>> ----
> >>> nice of you to weigh in on something you know absolutely nothing about.
> >> On the contrary - he has given the definitive 'user experience' of java 
> >> on fedora.  He knows exactly what that experience is.  You may be right 
> >> that it shouldn't be that way...
> > ----
> > ROFLMAO!!!
> > 
> > Seriously though, you can't hide behind Karl to make the point that
> > people are confused because if that were true, we'd all be using
> > Windows.
> 
> Errr... What universe are you in?  That's the problem I'd really like to 
> see solved - and the reason I keep harping about usability (and GPL) 
> problems.
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I'm not having any problems. Are you having problems? All I see is you
trying to score some ethereal point.

Craig




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