[OSM-talk] Java and freedom

Tue May 23 08:00:03 BST 2006

On 22 May 2006, at 23:39, Nick Hill wrote:

> If free as in beer is your only target audience, you may be 
> duplicating the josm effort as the DLJ will presumably lead to free as 
> in beer Java packages for OSX.

It's not. Target audience is "I just want something I can use without 
installation, config or downloads" - i.e. a second applet. Even on OS X 
10.4 you have to configure the Mac to use Java 1.5 before you can run 
JOSM, and that's a technical step too far for many people.

Richard