[CentOS] New java update?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 22:01:56 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:57 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote:
>
> Please.
>
> Java is doing everything in it's power to rival the insecurity records
> of sendmail and bind from years ago, or horde's track record or phpBB's.
> It's just one rolling security vector.  It's apparently maintained by
> people that don't really know what they're doing since it's one issue
> after another in rapid pace.  Oracle's attitude towards patches is
> abysmal at best and I can't see any relief in sight.  Look at it this
> way: distro's have rolling releases and Java has rolling security
> vulnerabilities.

But wait - wasn't making the code 'free' supposed to take care of all
those issues since everyone can now see the problems and contribute
the fixes?   I think RMS may have led us astray.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com



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