Linus INcompatibles and: wonk mode

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Mankind existed and flourished for tens of thousands of years without the "need" for the Java Runtime Environment !!

You don't need it. You want it. There is (in the study of Marketing) a difference between a "need" and a "want".

As it is expressed in a Marketing textbook I grappled with once.

People need food.

They serve their needs by satisfying wants.

Wants in respect of the food need can include:-

a) dry bread found in the gutter. b) a Maccer's hamburger. c) a $1,000 piece of toast in a plush diner in Saudi Arabia.

I realise Linux isn't marketed in the commercial sense but "marketing" in the full sense of the word isn't exclusive to the trade for money in commercial goods.

Linux satisfies a want flowing from the rather superfluous need to "be seen as a clued up computer person rather than a 8 year old surfing the net on Mickysoft Winders !"

Try to live with with the Java runtime environment for a few weeks.

I have a jre myself but I don't brag about it. For most of the time it runs un-noticed in the backgroud (Mickysoft). I have an 'orrible feeling my mobile-cellular phone needs it as well but a cellular phone isn't a luxury in this day and age especially if a person is dependent upon it in the search for employment which solves the food need.

If you want the jre to buttist with the search for food via employment then perhaps you have a want - but the underlying need is food and shelter.

This definition is perhaps contestible.

Nearly everything is. (Even Einstein's theories).

I realise this adds little but extra fluff to the Google archives:-)

... which will no doubt be subject to acedemic scrutiny 20,000 years from now.

For those in the future who stumble across this in the archives.

Up yours Blotto !

(they'll know what it means).