Another reason to not trust Oracle and non-free software
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I use OpenJDK 6 and 7 when needed, but I read today that Canonical is not only removing the Sun/Oracle JRE's from all their repositories, but also from user's systems as well. This will affect Ubuntu 11.04 and earlier considering that the proprietary JREs are not available for 11.10 and above.
What is the reason for this? Oracle's Larry Ellison is behind retiring the "Operating System Distributor License for Java" that allowed many distributions to distribute Java with their system. Since this happened, Canonical cannot update even the current versions with security fixes and is choosing to nuke it alltogether. Also, when people update the sun-java JRE in the future in update manager, OpenJDK will replace it.
Here are my sources:
http://bit.ly/u1dGUJ
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/25261-ubuntu-kills-java
I would actually say it is good news! OpenJDK is free software. Sun/Oracle's JDK has never been so.
And this is exactly the reason free software is needed. Nobody can abuse the user of free software.
I think Oracle has done a wise thing by basing the latest RI(Reference Implementation) of Java on OpenJDK. This means that OpenJdk is no longer the "less-capable java clone", but the real standard implementation, so all programs written with 'standard' java in mind will run flawlessly on OpenJDK. This is a big win for Free Software.
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