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Oracle fucked up Java? Not my view. Installing Java on Windows installed unwanted stuff for years during Sun's days. (Was it the Yahoo toolbar? I forget). Orac
by stevoski 14y ago
Oracle fucked up Java? Not my view. Installing Java on Windows installed unwanted stuff for years during Sun's days. (Was it the Yahoo toolbar? I forget).
Oracle, for all its faults, has actually managed to get the new versions of Java back on track. Sun seemed to be unable to get Java 7 out the door. Oracle did so, and is making good progress on Java 8.
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- pasbesoin 14y agoI won't speak to Java itself, but I will say that -- crapware side-effects aside -- the Java SE installation process has actually improved since Oracle bought out Sun. Whether coincidence or causative, I don't know. It runs more quickly, and it only has a single instance of a single level of nested installers (for the JRE). A couple of years ago, the installation process had gotten simply bleep-awful, especially after they tacked JavaFX onto it, which installation seemed to take even longer than the installation of the rest of the SE package.