Sorry, may be my question is not clear, I mean : what will be happen if oracle decides to close the software ???
same reason for what libreoffice ( instead of openoffice ) and Mariadb ( instead of mysql) are created !!! am I wrong?? is it not same pb? best regards On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri <sa...@eng.it> wrote: > shawn wilson writes: > > > The problems with java come from allowing untrusted compiled code to > > run natively on your machine (WebStart). > > I think that this problem arises with EVERY and EACH programming > language. > > You trust Debian software packages because you trust Debian, not because > of the programming language they are written in. > > > Web services, databases, > > A web service running in a language that is vulnerable to exploits > leveraging malfunction of the code handling the service (i.e. not > runnning in a virtual machine like JVM or CLR) are dangerous indeed. > > Database access done in a sloppy way may be dangerous. > > > Android apps, etc don't have this issue. > > For Android is false, there are known episodes of malicious apps > slipping in the app markets. > > > (and I like scripting languages better anyway). > > And maybe you use eval() type functions. A door that must be carefully > secured aganst potentially hostile code. > > You say taht you don't like Java culture, and this is the only thing > that holds, since what you like or dislike are something you and only > you can and is entitled to choose. > > As for myself, Java has something I like and other things I don't. > > As for any language. > > -- > /\ ___ Ubuntu: ancient > /___/\_|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____ African word > //--\| | \| | Integralista GNUslamico meaning "I can > \/ coltivatore diretto di software not install > già sistemista a tempo (altrui) perso... Debian" > > Warning: gnome-config-daemon considered more dangerous than GOTO >
