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Canonical To Remove Sun Java From Repositories, Users' Machines

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-you-keep-it-networked? dept.

New submitter an_orphan writes "Apparently, Oracle's 'Operating System Distributor License for Java' is expired, causing Ubuntu to not only remove sun-java from the partner repository, but from user's machines."

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  1. An the point is? by tibit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To shoot oneself in the foot?! I just don't get it. Wouldn't Oracle want to have their platform deployed as widely as possible? Someone's asleep at the helm. Just like at the media companies. Seems some big corporations these days are like chicken running around headless...

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    1. Re:An the point is? by amiga3D · · Score: 5, Interesting

      It's being replace by OpenJDK. It was planned to happen like this for years. This was planned obsolescence with a gradual move to OpenJDK. Their is no surprise here except for those who didn't know it was coming. The summary is inflammatory but if you read the article you see that this is nothing really.

  2. Writing was on the wall by strredwolf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Gentoo saw the license expiring, and did a proactive thing: flipped the "fetch restriction" flag back on, forcing users to pull it manually and slap it into the right place to install/upgrade.

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  3. Re:Is this April first? by dotancohen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    On Linux, most java developers consider that OpenJDK is the default implementation and that Sun JDK is more or less discontinued.

    And yet, a customer that I used to support has an app that will not run on OpenJDK, only on Sun Java. I do not know if it is sniffing the JVM or if it makes use of an undocumented feature AKA bug but it won't even load with OpenJDK. No, I don't have the source.

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  4. Not a fan of IcedTea by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have encountered numerous problems in recent years with Java code that simply doesn't work on IcedTea. It's not doing anything clever or undocumented. It runs fine on Windows, on MacOS, and on the same Linux boxes but with a different Java run-time. On some of these projects, we had so many problems that we explicitly no longer support IcedTea and won't even consider support requests from customers who insist on using it.

    I don't know about any other JREs based on OpenJDK, but IcedTea is so bug-ridden as to be unusable, and has been for a long time.

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  5. Re:"from user's machines" by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No, they're just going to remove it. If you want OpenJDK, you have to install that by hand.

    For almost all users, OpenJDK is just fine and is the one to use. (e.g. any Java plugins in the browser, almost any Java app). Anyone who is affected by this went to some effort to install Sun Java by hand specifically.

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