Yes because Aaron Swartz was without faults and no one should ever have to face the consequences of their own actions.

Basically they mismanage their RF spectrum so much that they need to get rid of current services to make room for more services.

Technically Google has stated that their work was not derived from OpenJDK and included libraries from Apache Harmony. So your comment doesn't apply.

E.g. People don't want to touch LibreOffice because it has ONE dependency on Java in its BASE application.

Since LibreOffice just hit version 4.0 and the improvements keep coming in, I don't think you are correct. You may have meant OpenOffice. OpenOffice suffered more from Oracle's heavy handiness than any technical issues with Java.

I don't know where you just don't like the word Java, or whether you don't like the language, or whether you don't like Applets in the browser, or what. But the Java ecosystem is way larger than you imagine.

He could be in high school, a "fresh out", or a geek trying to get "street cred" by mindlessly bashing Java. This is slashdot.

Wow that much cool stuff? Damn I need to hurry up and tweet #uselessjunk before they run out.

So you are saying it's more like my pharmacist who keeps a record of all my prescriptions and then automatically ships them to me when it is time for a refill?

I'd rather non-invasive and targeted ads, than the annoying (and presumably irrelevant if MS aren't being hypocritical here) animated ones that you got on MSN, and now get on Skype.

How can targeted ads based on the contents of your email be "non-invasive" ?

Do you think automated parsing of an email to target ads is "reading your private emails"?

YES. A stranger can read you email to try to gather intelligence about you. The Google scanner "reads" your email to gather information about you so they know what advertising you may be interested in. It's still information gathering regardless if it's automated.

If so, do you also think that a spam filter running on the mail server "reads your private emails"?

The spam filter scans for characteristics of unsolicited email. The spam filter isn't gathering personal information that can be used to formulate your likes and dislikes.

A little misdirection? The issue wasn't the advertising itself but Google reading/scanning personal email to create targeted ads.

Does Google still scan your email for keywords even though they may not immediately show you advertising? Just because they don't show you the ads while reading email doesn't mean they can't use the information gathered to target the ads you view while browsing.

Corporations don't provide services out of the goodness of their heart. The ads pay for the "free" email, and also help pay for Google's research into autonomous vehicles, improved search technology, etc. So I accept them, occasionally click on them, and sometimes even buy something.
Expecting something for nothing is being childish. Grow up.

No one said anything about Google not being able to use advertising to offset the cost of providing a free service. What the grown ups are talking about is Google's need to scan your email to create targeted ads.

The context of this thread was Java's alleged vulnerabilities tainting the code base of LibreOffice. No browser was mentioned. The java plugin is a "helper application" that a browser uses to start up a Java applet from within the browser. The plugin itself is where the vulnerabilities originate not the JRE. Disable the plugin then you have cut off most (if not all) the vulnerabilities people talk about.

Only if you ignore that the basic console has been stable for how many years/decades?

You know how Google is able to offer free service from advertising revenue? Well the postal service is able to keep postage low by making money from delivering junk mail. It's not like you are forced to open it or read it. Just throw it in the garbage.

if you read the article and click through to the Sophos website that describes the Mal/JavaJar trojan, you will realize that this is another instance of the browser plugin being exploited and not Java itself.