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            <p>The other day I wrote about the average person <a href="439.html">not knowing what Java is about</a>. I also commented about how even developers look for ways of making executables out of jar files. Little do they know that a properly packaged jar file is executable.</p>
            <p>Coincidently today I recieved a mail from tucows it was regarding the submission of the free version of <a href="http://www.radinks.net/ftp/">Rad FTP</a> to their archive; it had been rejected; the reason? Rad FTP does not contain an executable. You would have thought that tucows would know better but apparently they don't.</p>
            <p>Interestingly the same jar is <a href="http://www.download.com/Rad-FTP/3000-2160-10292105.html">listed on download.com</a> - possibly because the minimum fee for listing on download.com is $79.00 where as on tucows it's free. <a href="http://www.download.com/">download.com</a> probably does not want to reject too many entries cause they will get bad press and lose money.</p>
            <p>While still on the subject, some of the <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/">Adsense Ads</a> that were displayed on the previous blog entry were for products that make exes from jar files. Someone thinks there is money to be made in it.</p>
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