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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Wrong, Sun. Very Wrong.

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I just wanted to download an older version of your SDK so I could do some development work. Why the hell do you need my name, email address, country of origin and affiliated organisation? I know Oracle do this with their commercial products, but making me receive a download link in an email for a free SDK of a language that you are presumably trying to encourage people to use is the height of stupidity

Now excuse me while I go find a download mirror that doesn't ask for my personal details.
Posted by Bice Dibley at 5:20 PM

2 comments:

arrowed said...

Bice=failcakes
Tried using for the 'skip this' link/button?

June 1, 2010 10:59 PM
Bice Dibley said...

That's only an option for the latest release. If you want the Java 5 JDK, it's forms for you.

June 1, 2010 11:04 PM

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