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Sun Agrees to Talk to IBM over Open Sourcing Java
comforteagle writes "Sun has agreed to meet with IBM to further discuss the issue of open sourcing Java with them. 'Sun is closely evaluating the effectiveness of the process.' Could Sun be coming around to actually doing this?"
Wurd
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I mean, I understand someone being concerned about privacy relative to credit cards. Sure. So don't go around putting every little purchase on them. But, in this day and age, to decide that you won't have a credit card AT ALL is asinine. And, thanks to ESR's idiocy, everyone who wants to host ESR has to go through these insane gyrations of booking his travel and his hotel, etc., such that he'll never be asked for a CC. Jesus what a fucking idiot. Just get a fucking CC and only use it on travel. Really, ESR, the govt. couldn't give a tiny little fuck about where you go and what you put on your CC. Paranoid dumbass.
Glad to get that off my chest.
Why do you think Slashdot is posting two stories a day about open sourcing Java for Developers?
What does OSDN stand for again?
Sorry, if others have mentioned this already.
At last I can create "Blue Java" Goodbye cruel case sensitivity :D
Anyone else think this senario might happen..?
the devil
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
Don't hold your breath...
...they just want the mod points.
User: Sun
Karma: Poor (Probably from clubbing those baby seals way back when)
-Adam
god, i hate that show...
You open source dorks love to suck each other's cocks, don't you?
Regardless, didn't you read what the original poster said? It's not that it causes an inconvenience to ESR. It's that that cocknozzle makes everyone else jump through hoops so that he can feel "free" of having a stupid credit card. He is an ass. No ifs ands or buts. An ass.
Prevent attacks on his liberty? Whaaa? How does charging travel expenses to a fucking credit card attack his liberty?
For being today's ESR ass licker of the day, here's your e-award!!
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Hey, er, I'm a longtime C programmer, starting a cross platform project in C++. Our goal is to use borland C++ builder 6 on MS 'DoH, and g++ on linux. I've been reading Bjarne, and he seems to think that most STL imps these days are pretty good. Is he smoking crack?
My plan for xplat compat is to test every day on both platforms so incompats don't creep in.
-Dave
For those who use GUIs, Java is not cross-platform. Java requires Java to be installed, and it isn't installed on recent copies of Windows. "Cross-platform" is not completely true.
I haven't been doing (much) cross-platform programming, but I'm intense about finding an acceptable way. I predicted the downfall of Novell long before it happened, and now I'm predicting that Linux will eventually become the only commonly used desktop OS, due to the fact that Microsoft managers do not seem to be able to find a way to live in the world without being abusive. Now is not the time to write a lot of Microsoft-specific code.
C++ with WxWidgets (formerly WxWindows until they were threatened by Microsoft) seems the best way.
However, the real answer is for Java to become useful for those who need extensive GUIs and fast execution. It's obvious that Java is on the right track. Programmers of business applications don't want to worry about memory allocation.