== Link: Why the ease of installing Java matters

In [[Java in The Land of Make Believe
http://tomayko.com/articles/2006/11/20/java-in-the-land-of-make-believe]],
Ryan Tomayko unloads a righteous rant about why Java's license matters
and what effects it has in the Linux and [[*BSD|]] worlds, with great
bits like:

> If you want to get on the bad side of software developers and system
> admins, the fastest route is to *waste their time*.

Amen. [[What he said ../linux/JVMIrrelevancy]].

(The good news is that Sun GPL'ing Java may finally be changing all of
this mess, which Tomayko happily acknowledges.)

(From many places, but I saw it originally on [[Planet Python
http://www.planetpython.org/]], as Tomayko's blog is syndicated there.)