this is probably a little touchy to ask...

Jules Gilbert jules.stocks at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 10:38:23 UTC 2010


Look, I'm just a user.  I'm not a Java developer, not a language
developer, not a run-time specialist.  But folks, we got problems!  I
say this because it's becoming really hard to make Java run on a
browser.

I didn't even know that Google and Oracle weren't getting along, I
really am out of date.  (All I do is code.)

But here's the thing: almost no one can make a java enabled browser,
and lot's of us need exactly that, java running on our browsers.  So
obviously this means that something is seriously wrong -- and worse,
when I asked "how", no one came back and said "Oh, you obviously
didn't install such-and-such a patch, do that and everything will
work."  No, and worse, the responses are all about possible solutions
in the distant not-known-when-and-only-maybe future.

I do think we should all get behind this Beat fellow, he's
beat at freebsd.org, his work seems closest to bringing up a java-enabled
browser, with zero or at least few problems.

--jg


On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
<merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Jules" == Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Jules> Now an opinion.  If Oracle isn't going to help us, we should look
> Jules> around for an alternative, even inventing something else, something
> Jules> that isn't Sun/Oracle/Java.
>
> You mean something that looks like Java but isn't Java?
>
> That's precisely what the Oracle v. Google suit is about.  Dangerous
> road to go down at this point.
>
> Or do you mean something that isn't even Java, but has a lot of
> Java-like features?
>
> I think you're describing "everything else already available in
> production".  Plenty of choices.
>
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