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Does an Open Java Really Matter?
snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions the relevance of the recent opening of Java given the wealth of options open source developers enjoy today. Sure, as the first full-blooded Java implementation available under a 100 percent Free Software license, RedHat's IcedTea pushes aside open source objections to developing in Java. Yet, McAllister asks, if Java really were released today, brand-new, would it be a tool you'd choose? 'The problem, as I see it, is twofold,' he writes. 'First, as the Java platform has matured, it has become incredibly complex. Today it's possible to do anything with Java, but no one developer can do everything — there simply aren't enough hours in the day to learn it all. Second, and most important, even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies — adding APIs and language features as it goes — newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better.'" Since Java itself never mattered except to sell books, I still don't see why opening it matters.
Yay, a Rickroll, that's so new and still funny.
Please go fuck yourself
Mods, please mod parent down, and do not click the link. It leads to http://www.raygoldmodels.com/ which is impossible to exit short of killing your web browser due to endless message popups.
(On a related note does anyone know of a way to deal with web pages that begin spewing endless modal dialogs, one after another?)
I take issue with you saying "Go ahead, mod me as flamebait! I'm used to it."
Taking a look at your comment history, most of your comments have been modded 'insightful' or 'funny'. And, if you do have 'flamebait' comments, then they're hidden below my field of view, which would imply that they are not recent, and thus I doubt you're used to it.
If I had some mod points to hand out, you know where I would be putting them for this inciting lie.
- John
He's an asshole. But more to the point, he's likely now laughing masturbatorily at the fact that people like you and me are responding to his childishness.
myselfmusic
Why the hell did I get modded flamebait? I was making a joke about the AC, for christ's sake.