Re: JVM For windows

From: George Hester (hesterloli_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/07/04 

Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 03:38:08 GMT

You can still get it if you are smart about it. Hey even for Windows 2003. And to turn off the icon in the system tray turn off the Java Console. 

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George Hester
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"Fountain of knowledge" <google5@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9fd5aaf3.0403060816.11cf5080@posting.google.com...
> Well, thanks Sun Microsystems.  Because of the court case against
> Microsoft, I can no longer download and install the Microsoft Java
> Virtual Machine for Windows 2000 SP4.  Instead, I only have the option
> to install yours.  WHY?  The Sun JVM is a bigger install, slower and
> the worst of all, you have to have that pathetic icon in the system
> tray permanently just to use Java.  What on earth does it serve? 
> Great, it shows a few outputs from the JVM, but so fucking what.  The
> MS JVM was invisible and unobtrusive.  It was a small download and did
> the job simply.  I don't need all this other crap that you have forced
> on me.  AND, haven't sun now done exactly what they were complaining
> about from MS?  My only option now is to install the Sun JVM just to
> view some websites.  Well, I don't fucking want to!  So much for
> choice.  I am tired of hearing all this bull*** from Sun (and MS)
> about these issues.  As far as I am concerned, I don't care who writes
> my JVM.  I will always choose the one that works simplest and fastest.
>  I don't care who wrote it.  I want the smallest download without the
> clutter.  Only MS provided that.  The MS download was 5mb.  The Sun
> one is 14mb.
> 
> So, Sun Microsystems and all involved in this ridiculous court case
> and bickering, *** YOU.  Another example of corporate greed.  Thanks
> for forcing your *** down my throat.  And worst of all, as I use
> Linux on my other machine, I have to use Sun's JVM as well!  Here is a
> big middle finger to everyone at Sun Microsystems.