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[prabe]

As much as I enjoy disparaging Oracle, Java was a Sun product, and as a former Sun employee, I don't think we can ever apologize enough for the way things occurred.

Seems to me there's way more than enough blame and shame to go around, between the two.

 

[dbolack]

Seems to me there's way more than enough blame and shame to go around, between the two.

They certainly haven't improved the situation - much.

 

[Ryujin]

Honestly getting to the point where almost all conversation with other humans is either this...

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Or this...

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” ―Robert E. Howard

There's also a third, that is somewhat similar in appearance to the second:

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

As in the truth of his character. How he would speak, if there was no consequence to that speech.

 

[overgeeked]

There's also a third, that is somewhat similar in appearance to the second:

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

As in the truth of his character. How he would speak, if there was no consequence to that speech.

Yeah. Like power and money, anonymity reveals more than it corrupts.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

Nice counterpoint! Although, counter-counterpoint, this hasn't been the case for at least a decade*. But I'm picking up what you're laying down.

So let's start from a critical point: no regular users ever wanted to install Java, but we had to because of it's prominence on the back end. And Oracle has only cared about enterprise customers (i.e. the people that pay them), never the end user experience.

Technically, it's because it was required on the front end i.e. on your PC e.g. to run a local Java applet, or run a local Minecraft game. If it were running on the backend, you'd never need to install Java, because the JRE is installed on the backend server(s).

* Barring Minecraft, which only began bundling its JRE in 2020. Or apparently, Maptool (thanks @Thomas Shey).

 

[Nikosandros]

Tangentially, that’s sort of the beauty of HERO.

"I always need to find another three different ways to stat the same thing". Psychological Limitation, uncommon, total (15 points).

 

[Alzrius]

You really have to appreciate someone who enters every conversation with a huge chip on their shoulder, making everyone else miserable, and when they're called out for their behavior says that it's justified because of how awful everyone else is.

 

[Autumnal]

I do? I’m going to have to see about some hardship pay.

 

[Scribe]

Honestly getting to the point where almost all conversation with other humans is either this...

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Or this...

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” ―Robert E. Howard

The relationship between my satisfaction here, and the size of my ignore list, is direct and obvious.

 

[trappedslider]

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