Bigbro's foray into the scary world of blogging
Today I required Java 1.5 (Java 5??? wtf??? Use linearly incrementing numbers you muppets!) to use some software on my aging, yet still perfectly functional iBook, running OS X 10.3. Much to my amazement, you can't get Java 1.5 for OS X 10.3. You have to pay Apple a chunk of money and upgrade to 10.4 (Tiger) before you can use Java 1.5. I cannot emphasise WTF?!?!?!?!? strongly enough in this case. I can understand the lack of support for legacy platforms, but this is getting stupid! I now have even less respect for Java than I had to begin with.
Dear Sun Microsystems, please take your piece of Java shonk and shove it up your collective $insert_appropriate_thing_here. Or at the very least, put in big, bold, clear letters on the download page that OS X 10.3 is not supported and declare that Java doesn't really run anywhere. It just runs in some places, like an ELF binary, or an EXE file, or perl... No, actually perl does run pretty much anywhere.
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