Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:57 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
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