Sun sucks

[Ansar Mohammed]

Yrui, thanks for the assist man. But I refuse to believe that this is what
it has come to. 
Thanks for the help all, someone gave me creds I can use, the openJDK seems
like a promising option.

-----Original Message-----
From: Yuri Pankov [mailto:yuri.pankov at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:30 PM
To: Ansar Mohammed
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Sun sucks

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:10:10PM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
> So I am trying to build Java on FreeBSD 7.0. I need to REGSITER to
download
> the Timezone Java patch. 
> 
> After registering Sun complains that they don't like my ID and I need to
> provide more information. I create another account. Same problem. After 3
> months I finally get an email saying they want clarification on the
acronym
> for my company. (no access yet to download Java patch.)
> 
>  
> 
> This sucks man. Is there one central repository where we can get all the
> components required to build Java on FreeBSD?

Try downloading it from URL provided by filesearch.ru search results:

http://www.filesearch.ru/cgi-bin/s?q=tzupdater-1_3_11-2008i.zip&t=f&w=a


HTH,
Yuri