[OSM-talk] Java and freedom

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 22 May 2006, at 17:29, David Sheldon wrote:

> For most people the beer-freeness of Java, and the availability of
> programming tools is sufficient to make it the tool of choice.

If only Java really were free as in beer. It'll cost me £89 to run JOSM 
on my Mac... because neither Apple nor Sun offer Java 1.5 for OS 10.3 
(an OS released just two-and-a-half years ago). :(

Richard