[4737] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Latest Java hole is Netscape/Sun only
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tazman)
Sun Mar 9 20:22:54 1997
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 18:50:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Tazman <taz@kensico.com>
To: Thomas Reardon <thomasre@microsoft.com>
cc: schemers@stanford.edu, "'Bob Denny'" <rdenny@dc3.com>,
"'WWW Security List'" <WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199703092316.SAA12598@kensico.com>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Thomas Reardon wrote:
> >Java is open and platform independent. Java has been tested and
> review by many
> >security expert and researchers.
>
> Let be clear: Java is platform-independent to some extent (I mean, you
> need similar hardware, 256-color graphics, etc for just about every
> 'plaform' JDK 1.1 works on), but IT IS NOT OPEN.
I hope you aren't browsing the net with less than 256 colors!
You can probably make a similiar argument for needing > 10M of space.
Anyway, platform-independent = OS + hardware.
All the specifications for the Java Virtual Machine and Java Language is
documented and free. You can easily find 20 vendors implementing the JVM
and browsers. How "open" do you want it to be?
