On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:47 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >> Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version >> of java should be reported as a bug; >> http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827 > > One *could* argue that Java is a bug, being a) so error-prone, b) so > vulnerable to attack, and c) so huge and slow, and shouldn't be > allowed.... But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you should only be allowed to use languages that work across CPU types and OS's so as to never be locked into a monopolistic single vendor. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com