Re: Non-Windows version of IBM Softcopy Librarian?

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 07:52:46 -0500, Jay Maynard wrote:

>> > I'd love a Linux version.
>> Linux for what hardware platform? z/Series? Power PC? SPARC?
>> Other (specify)? I'd hope portable for all.
>
>Heck, I'd settle for a Java version that wasn't tied to the Windows
>platform, IBM is not about to do anything for Mac OS X specifically, but
>a platform-independent Java version (you know, what Java was supposed to be
>all about) woul let me run it there anyway.

mmmm - Java; "write once, run nowhere".
I tried the (Linux) reader a while back, and it went to hell in a handbasket
- didn't like the Blackdown JRE I had installed IIRC.

Yet another instance to re-enforce my dis-enchantment with the abject
con-job that is Java.

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