On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 11:25 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I was just at a web site looking for info on receiving ATSC tv on my > pcHDTV-3000 card, and wasn't able to visit several of the links because > javascript wasn't enabled. According to FF it is. ---- then it is ---- > > However, I don't think any java function has worked since installing FC6. ---- java-gcj-compat is part of the fedora package and should work for much of what is needed but apparently you are confusing java with javascript which other than sharing the first 4 letters, do not have anything to do with each other, nor have they ever had a shared history. ---- > > Is there a set way to do this, or have TPTB decided that they cannot > tolerate the Sun license, so java is history? That seems rather short > sighted to me... ---- Sun's release of java recently changed to a GPL license for most but not all of their code base and it may take some time to sort through it all and the gpl version of java (gcj-compat) has made great strides so their is no great imperative to simply abandon what's already in the distribution simply because Sun changed the license (after FC-6 was released I might add though I am doubtful that Sun's java will make it into FC-7). It may seem short sighted to you but then again, you don't know the difference between java and javascript. Craig
