Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 13:37:16 +0200 From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.ORG> To: <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun License for JDK 1.4 forces automatic updates ?!! Message-ID: <200209021337.16691.znerd@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA95B@l04.research.kpn.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA95B@l04.research.kpn.com>
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> Interesting. Could someone please post this on Slashdot? While they are > updating it, could they please fix the problem's we're seeing in the > Linuxulator and 1.4? I read this on /. in the first place: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/28/2135205 > > This sounds a scary to me. Looks like Sun is thinking: If > > Microsoft can get away with it, so can we. > > I guess we knew it all along, but it was never this obvious: Sun == > Microsoft, only for UNIX. :-) > > > I believe we should consider banning the Sun JDK 1.4 for Linux. > > Uhm... on what grounds, precisely? If someone wants to install this kit > they need to accept the license themselves. It is your own responsibility > to read and understand the licenses you accept. You are free not to > install the 1.4 release. Somehow we should react. Perhaps an extra pre-fetch warning or so... > We could debate the need for an additional warning about this in the > post-install message. On second thought: if the user accepted the license > without reading it, would he or she read the post-install message? I > really doubt it. pre-fetch is better, so they haven't accepted the license yet. Ernst -- Ernst de Haan EuroNet Internet B.V. "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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