freebsddom and java's flaming hoops

[Greg Lewis]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:55:40AM -0400, Tim Middleton wrote:
> I also have the JDK 1.3 binary packge installed on a 4.8 box. It is amazingly 
> annoying to install as well, of course, due to having to grab it from a 
> special location, and click through the agreements and so forth... but at 
> least it installed... and there's a few less flaming hoops... clearly I'm 
> whining. But someone has to. (-: 

I'm desperately sorry that the legal agreements which constrain the
distribution of several years of work by a number of people (me included)
are annoying.  I'll get right on that.

Actually, I've been looking into how I can make the patchset download
a little easier, but your posts have done little except get me a little
agro and less inclined to work on that.  Next time I'd appreciate it if
you left out the whining.  Constructive criticism is great.  Wading
through the whining to get to it just makes people less inclined to
even read your post in the first place, let alone look for useful
points (and you did in fact have one hidden away in the first post).

"When you whine like a stuck pig, or flame like a blowtorch, then people
 get angry.  If you want to ACCOMPLISH something, p'raps you should learn
 some tact."

	-- Random, on rec.games.mud

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