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Cross-Platform As Long As It's Windows, Solaris, Linux/x86?

Mike Shoemaker is not happy about the fact that the recently released Together Designer Community Edition is not available for Mac OS X.

Why on earth would one write a Java program, which supposedly runs anywhere a JVM is available, and then restricts its usefulness by locking it into a platform specific installer?

This is plain silly.

If your program is truly pure Java, at least provide a generic zip bundle so that it can be installed on all these other platforms that are not Windows, Solaris or Linux/x86.