Per, I'm guessing this guy is one of those who thinks the only thing that can be done with Java is a Web application (which, presumably, makes heavy use of java.security.*). I think we should come up with a name for people like that. Dot-communists? Dot-com-a-holics? Dot-com-iacs?
;) Regards, Alex. --- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: EFD1 AC6C 7ED5 E453 C367 AC7A B474 16E0 758D 7ED9 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/CM>CC/IT d- s:+ a16 C++(++++)>$ UL++++>$ P--- L++>++$ E+ W+(-) N+ o? K? w---() !O !M !V PS+(++)>+ PE-(--) Y+>+ PGP t+>++ !5 X-- R>++ tv(+) b+(++) DI(+) D++ G>+++ e--> h! !r y>+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ On 1 Mar 2001, Per Bothner wrote: > Alan KF LAU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just for everybody's information. kaffe is in fact developed under a > > contract to Microsoft, please see > > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,20225,00.html > > This quite misleading. As far as I know, the Microsoft contract > referred to has only funded a very small part of Kaffe. (I have had > contact with Tim Wilkinson and Kaffe since before there was a > Transvirtual, and in fact was involved in some early of funding of > Kaffe, when I worked at Cygnus .) > > > Also one of the very annoying thing in kaffe bother me much is that it has > > not implemented java.security. It is a mistake or an intention to make Java > > insecure? > > See http://www.kaffe.org/cgi-bin/kaffe/security?user=guest;addsignature=1 > > > > How could one build a serious application without java.security? > > You are being deliberately provocative. Of course one can build a > serious application without java.security. One can even build a > secure application without it, though java.security gives you better > control. A compiler, a word-processor, an editor, or any single-user > application should not to deal with security concerns. > -- > --Per Bothner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bothner.com/~per/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >