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Sun's James Gosling Says "It's Feeling Like the Bubble Years Again"

"Life is such a blur these days..."
By Java News Desk
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May 3, 2006 01:15 PM EDT
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"Life is such a blur these days..." blogs the Father of Java, James Gosling (pictured talking at last year's JavaOne to SYS-CON.TV), from Johannesburg in South Africa, where he is helping deliver 3 days of developer education sessions at one of Sun's worldwide Tech Days events, just ten days after finishing up two days in Moscow of just the same thing: spearheading a crew of evangelists and engineers doing non-stop detailed technical presentations.

"It's feeling like the Bubble Years again..." Gosling muses, in this brief entry from just yesterday.

So, is it? Are we headed for another boom-bust rollercoaster ride, with its accompanying insanity of too-rich rewards followed by massive economic hangover?

Maybe this is the year that Sun will finally open-source Java; that would add to the "Bubble" feel, for certain.

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iamcfl3 05/03/06 03:05:34 AM EDT

Opening the java source will give spammers access to the source code to the eval function. With it, spammers can make email address harvesters that can extract email addresses 'hidden' in javascript by running it through eval.

Down goes a line of defence against email harvesting! :P

Even having your email address imbedded in an image won't stop 'manual spammers'!

You've been duly warned....