open-source alternatives to Java and Flash

[Matvei Kliuchnikov]

On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 12:31:12 -0800, Daniel Robitaille
<robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was looking at the very few non-free software still left on my
> Ubuntu machine, and I was wondering what kind of open-source
> alternative currently exist for Java and Flash for browsing the web,
> preferably available in main or universe.  And if anyone has good (or
> bad) experience on how they compare to the non-free versions?

See 

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RestrictedFormats
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Java

Unfortunately, you must resort to non-free software (that is thus
outside the Ubuntu repository) if you need access to flash/java-based
sites.

--
M.E. Kliuchnikov