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le.com] On Behalf Of Ken
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:43 AM
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Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: What in 1.5 is non-Java?
[...]
I truly regard Apples lack of commitment to providing newer JVM
availability, for their older OSs, as a greedy sales
motivator (not just
in java APIs either, sorry to say)and/or being due to lack of
programmer
resources. Making the 1.5(5) jvm only available for Panther
is just bad
for the community, becasue it produces as many compatibility problems
as, say, using native code would. Sad.
You mean Tiger, right?
<rant>
I am so tired of these arguments. Everyone sees his/her situation as
the one
Apple should focus on. The simple fact is that not all java developers
moved
to 1.5 the day it was released. Hell, there are people on this list
developing for Mac OS 9! Where do you get off demanding that Apple
support
you as though you are the entire developer contingent they have to
support?
Why does Apple have to support a lame duck operating system if you
don't?
You don't expect Java 1.5 support for 10.1 do you? Everyone is so
quick to
tell Apple what they "must" do and accuse them of "greedy" tactics.
Apple
has a responsibility to millions of users to protect the investment
they
have made in the Macintosh platform. Has it occurred to you that there
is
nothing greedy about saying they can't afford to develop and maintain
Java
1.5 on two platforms? That isn't greed, it's strategic allocation of
resources.
</rant>
David
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