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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com