Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 12, 2004 11:07 PM
Let's just start using it.
Let's not. The real Java Trap isn't that Java programs are running on non-free runtimes, it's that they're Java programs. Java is a closed system, it interoperates poorly at best with other languages and environments, and it spreads the use of interfaces that are dependent on the increasingly cumbersome Java runtime.
I would applaud the possibility that Microsoft has finally driven a stake in Java's heart if not for the fact that Microsoft's replacement isn't likely to remain even as open as Java.
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The real Java Trap
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 12, 2004 11:07 PMLet's not. The real Java Trap isn't that Java programs are running on non-free runtimes, it's that they're Java programs. Java is a closed system, it interoperates poorly at best with other languages and environments, and it spreads the use of interfaces that are dependent on the increasingly cumbersome Java runtime.
I would applaud the possibility that Microsoft has finally driven a stake in Java's heart if not for the fact that Microsoft's replacement isn't likely to remain even as open as Java.
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