[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu Survey

[Marius Kruger]

On 12 March 2012 17:00, Nico Michael <nick.michael at ptaisp.co.za> wrote:
> 4. All Java Developers use Sun(Oracle) Java JDK  and not the rubbish
> provided by Ubuntu
>     (Please encourage us to stay with Ubuntu)
>     its painful to get the good JDK 1.6 and 1.7 (Sun JDK) installed .
>     Its not even available as a .deb file for download

This last one is Oracle's cleverness AFAICT, they didn't renew the
licence grant that allowed debian to ship it.

'Oracle Java (JVM/JDK) will not be available in the Debian / Ubuntu
repositories anymore because Oracle retired the "Operating System
Distributor License for Java" (JDL) and the only release available in
the repositories will be OpenJDK.'
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/09/how-to-install-oracle-java-7-jdk-in.html

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✝ Marius