Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @08:03AM from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

snydeq writes "Two years later, Oracle's stewardship of Java continues to raise user and vendor ire, this time due to modularization, licensing, and security concerns. 'Plans for version 8 of Java Platform Standard Edition, which is due next year, call for inclusion of Project Jigsaw to add modular capabilities to Java. But some organizations are concerned with how Oracle's plans might conflict with the OSGi module system already geared to Java. In the licensing arena, Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, says Oracle is no longer letting Linux distributors redistribute Oracle's own commercial Java, causing difficulties for the company. Meanwhile, security vendor F-Secure views Java as security hindrance.'"

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Re:C++ is cross-platform by Ynot_82 · 2012-01-10 08:35 · Score: 0, Redundant

I agree.
supporting all those different CPU architectures, allowing a single OS to run on devices from routers, phones and TVs up through laptops and desktops all the way to multi-node clusters and mainframes is stupid. It stops some silly developer from shipping a single closed-source binary
Madness