I imagine a lot of the stats are based on tooling defaults. For Java we have a corporate standard to use tabs but most developers aren't even aware of their indents. Eclipse defaults to spaces so thats what ends up in a lot of code.
How is this any difference than installing Windows 10 on your Kiosk? You are paying for updates and support. You are free to use Linux and OpenJDK if you don't want to pay. Most shops I know of are using OpenJDK for all production deployments at this point unless you have a larger contract with Oracle.
It would be similar if Windows originally released with a license that let you use it without charge, and then later changed the terms of the license in an obscure way that classified a full sized PC as an embedded device.
Since Windows has been clear from the start that any commercial use requires a paid license, it's not similar in any way at all.
Kiosk licensing has always been required for shipping machines pre-installed with java. Sun required this 10+ years ago as well.
I'm not a lawyer but I believe this what you can do that you can't do with windows is ship the kiosk without java but give the customer a CD-ROM to install it themselves.
Why is there very little talk about the First Amendment in this whole discussion? They are asking to write custom software.
The supreme court has ruled in separate cases that:
1. that software is speech
2. that a person (corporations are people according to them) cannot be compelled to speak
It would seem to me that the FBI could perhaps subpoena technical documentation from Apple but it should be required to hire their own developers to write this software.
I may be reading this wrong, but the only annoyance I would find with their toolchain is that it seems like their true source is the FontLab files which is not open source. The readme says that you should be able to edit the UFO files and generate the FontLab files from that, but it doesn't seem to be the process they are using. It would be nice for the UFO files to be the true source rather than a derived one.
Unfortunately, doing TrueType hinting more-or-less requires FontLab. There are other alternatives that are being developed, but by and large FontLab remains the industry tool for building TT-hints. Part of this talk by Tal Leming (https://vimeo.com/album/3329572/video/123781570#t=457s) explains some of the interchange issues with TT-hint formats. Long story short, everyone has a slightly different hinting compiler, and they're all proprietary.
So many people commenting here don't seem to have read the article. His comment is that Java can't connect to an SSL encrypted URL out of the box. He is saying that because it can't do this it can't be used for a basic command line app. He isn't complaining that it is hard to write a command line app in Java.
This URL is not self signed and loads fine as a valid cert in a browser. In the Java application it throws an exception about a bad handshake. I believe this is because Java 7 and 8 ship with less trusted certificate authorities than browsers do.
Java doesn't get a lot of press or cool points, but the enterprise world is massive and anyone in it knows there's still a lot of spending going on for java projects.
It's also worth noting that several other languages on the list only run on the Java Virtual Machine. (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Gosu, Ceylon). Jobs for these languages are commonly filled by people who identify as Java developers.
