Re: Java plugin advocacy

2002-05-29 Thread Damian Morris
On 5/29/2002 11:07 PM, Rick Lutowski wrote: The lawsuit was in the Java 1.3 timeframe. Browsers were stuck at 1.1 years before that. Also, the lawsuit did not affect Netscape 4.x, which also is stuck at 1.1 (I have heard NS 4.x is 'dead', but it comprises about 20% of the browser market, and the

Re: Java plugin advocacy

2002-05-29 Thread Damian Morris
On 5/29/2002 11:07 PM, Rick Lutowski wrote: > The lawsuit was in the Java 1.3 timeframe. Browsers > were stuck at 1.1 years before that. Also, the lawsuit > did not affect Netscape 4.x, which also is stuck at 1.1 > (I have heard NS 4.x is 'dead', but it comprises about > 20% of the browser mark

Re: Java plugin advocacy

2002-05-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:07:19AM -0500, Rick Lutowski wrote: > debian ships with NS 4,x in contrib. Debian ships without Netscape Navigator or Communicator. Netscape Navigator and Communicator 4.77 are in the non-free archive. > How difficult would it be be for the woody Netscape package to s

Re: Java plugin advocacy

2002-05-29 Thread Rick Lutowski
Damian Morris wrote: > > Browsers have been stuck at 1.1.4 for years because MS is legally > constrained by Sun from implementing any Java spec past 1.1.4. > Unfortunately, this of course suits MS to a T - they'd have had to have > tried much harder to justify something with the scope of .NET if a

Re: Java plugin advocacy

2002-05-29 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 08:07:19AM -0500, Rick Lutowski wrote: > debian ships with NS 4,x in contrib. Debian ships without Netscape Navigator or Communicator. Netscape Navigator and Communicator 4.77 are in the non-free archive. > How difficult would it be be for the woody Netscape package to

Re: Java plugin advocacy

2002-05-29 Thread Rick Lutowski
Damian Morris wrote: > > Browsers have been stuck at 1.1.4 for years because MS is legally > constrained by Sun from implementing any Java spec past 1.1.4. > Unfortunately, this of course suits MS to a T - they'd have had to have > tried much harder to justify something with the scope of .NET if

Re: errors installing j2sdk1.3

2002-05-29 Thread Stephen Zander
> "Eric" == Eric Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Eric> Am I stupid or are these things tricky? dpkg -Bi --force-overwrite java2-common -- Stephen "So if she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood."... "And therefore?"... "A witch!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE