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Re:Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript by cxr on Monday September 16, 2024 @05:47PM (#41561340)
Geez, not this shit again. (One of the many ways you could tell Oracle was doomed in trying to find and convincingly argue a tenable position against Google: half the people half the time argued that Google should be sued for implementing Java, and the other half the time argued that they should be sued for not implementing Java.)
Re:Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript by yarg on Monday September 16, 2024 @06:18PM (#41561695)
If you can't run jars, it's not a java implementation.
Re:Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript by nineteen999 on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @05:28AM (#41565933)
You mean zip files with a jar extension?
Re:Oracle, it's time to free JavaScript by yarg on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:16AM (#41568531)
Yes the external format of a jar file is a zip - but there is also a specification for the internal structure and file formats, as well as information like the minimum java version required to execute (and all sorts of other crap, I can't really say since I haven't actually looked - these are just some sane enough minimums).

But anyway, no need to be snide.