[geeks] Browser licensing?

[Phil Stracchino]

Alois Hammer wrote:
> Go look at American
> Power Conversion's PowerChute Business Edition (I'll wait).  They wrote
> the agent, the server, and the client in Java, ship 1.3.x with it, don't
> allow you to change to a newer JRE (yes, I managed to brute-force it
> anyway with the dubious magic of Windows junctions), and make it start
> (at least) two entirely separate JVMs every time your Windows machine
> boots, plus at least one more for the console if you'd like to see what
> your UPS is doing, or run a battery test or something.  This is not
> atypical.  It *really* sucks on the one 2.4GHz/1GB Celeron Windows box
> I'm still running, that has to be plugged directly into the SmartUPS
> 420's serial port, which refuses to speak to PowerChute Personal Edition
> (not that it's loads better than PCBE).

Peripheral to the discussion, but ...  Why are you still running
PowerChute, when apcupsd has a native Windows port and supports all APC
UPS families?


> If no one's coding to JRE 1.5 or better-- and I don't see anyone doing
> it on a regular basis --it's hard to get threaded code.  The ongoing
> split between "Generation-1" and "Generation-2" Java in Gentoo Linux
> probably helps illustrate what's going on here.

I'd appreciate pointers to more information on that.




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