Comments on: Gosling looks down Sun's open road

The man behind Java offers his take on open source, security and why IT is always "on the edge of collapse."

[Shef Seattle]

Tired of Java updates

The laptop I bought has somehow JRE pre-installed. I was tired of contact Java updates and so I just uninstalled it. It is no different than Windows; it constantly needs updating. Just another headache.

[Shef Seattle]

Spelling Correction

The laptop I bought had somehow JRE pre-installed. I was tired of constant Java updates and so I just uninstalled it. It is no different than Windows; it constantly needs updating. Just another headache.

[Shef Seattle]

Spelling Correction

The laptop I bought had somehow JRE pre-installed. I was tired of constant Java updates and so I just uninstalled it. It is no different than Windows; it constantly needs updating. Just another headache.

[Dalkorian]

stagnation

There's a word for something that never improves - stagnation.

You missed the real point entirely. The point isn't wether
something needs an update, the point is does the update
improve anything. With your idiotic Winblows OS, the updates
normally just break things that used to work *WITHOUT*
increasing security whatsoever.

*THAT* is a headache!

[stephenwalli]

Living on the "edge of collapse" is GOOD!

The sort of enablement he describes on the second page is a good thing. All our advances in languages and tools are about developing more (better) software by writing less code. From higher level (compiled) languages, to modules, libraries, objects (and distributed objects), scripting languages, web services, visualization, configuration management, and automated build and delivery, it's all about enablement. Every time we double the speed or transistor density of a chip, or the bandwidth on the Net, we come up with new and interesting applications to devour it. So too with human capacity.

http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2007/03/it_departments_.html

[Blito]

Liberalese

Well theres definite la divide in Mac and Linux users.
MS gets the job done of running software but in a conservative sense it's quite boring to some. I like that boring steel structure that you know will run what you want it to run. I don't haev to use anti virus with MS and certainly not Vista.