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Dec 02, 2008 23:01

Sun bundles Yahoo's toolbar with Java. Without commenting on the levels of awesomeness in that, I will comment on their installer text. From their own website,


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xaosenkosmos December 3 2008, 07:20:07 UTC
Hunch: at Zeitgeist, there's a girl with a nosering and weird ear piercings telling how she snuck that in during her stint at Sun. It was right after her Lit Crit degree, right before getting a hipper job that pays better and is more secure.

Either that, or they let the sophomore intern copyedit the thing.

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toastednut December 3 2008, 09:08:00 UTC
that sounds about right.

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brad December 3 2008, 15:57:04 UTC
Not the image. (I never noticed if the page text was also wrong....)

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ciphergoth December 3 2008, 08:37:12 UTC
Nobody fucks with the Java!

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tom December 3 2008, 08:59:59 UTC
Apparently yahoo does :X

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flipzagging December 3 2008, 09:58:16 UTC
I wonder if it's the result of a last minute replacement string that overflowed the box. Sun's branding guidelines state that they must never say things like "We wrote this in Java". They have to say "We programmed this using the Java™ platform".

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xach December 3 2008, 10:43:14 UTC
I also like "By clicking the 'I Agree' button below..." followed by only

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