Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. No, java was Sun's baby, now it's Oracle's. I know y'all have seen my feelings about Oracle/Sun hardware "tech support".... mark