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I remember the first time I found Sun bundling the Yahoo! toolbar along with the Java runtime.

I knew at that moment that Sun had lost its self respect and had no credible strategy for Java. I immediately went back to developing C++ for MS Windows and Perl for Linux.



> I remember the first time I found Sun bundling the Yahoo! toolbar along with the Java runtime.

Rest assured that they have now ceased this insane pratice.

Now the JRE installer force install the Ask Toolbar instead.




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