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By bundling advert-ridden applications with their latest OS, Microsoft aren't really all that far off the mark from your comment.
Are these applications really bundled by Microsoft or are they pre-installed [1] by OEMs that sell Win8 with their hardware? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-installed_software
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Are these applications really bundled by Microsoft or are they pre-installed [1] by OEMs that sell Win8 with their hardware? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-installed_software
If you do a clean install of Windows 8, several of the bundled applications - such as Weather - have adverts placed in them.
Go to http://www.ninite.com and get the Java installer from there. It's malware-free and streamlined.
Couldn't someone just build OpenJDK for Windows and offer it as an alternative install? Because, I'll tell you what, I sure didn't get any crapware when I typed `sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk`.
The problem is that the OpenJDK has problems with graphical toolkits, specifically Swing. Intellij (Java IDE with a lot of Swing) runs a lot worse under the OpenJDK than under the Sun's JVM. I might be wrong, but I don't think this has changed recently.
Either way, it'd be a nice way to give Oracle the middle finger about this.
Couldn't someone just build OpenJDK for Windows and offer it as an alternative install? Because, I'll tell you what, I sure didn't get any crapware when I typed `sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk`.
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRAKB/OpenJDK+is+n...
If the petition were asking Oracle to establish a nonprofit that could support Java and offering to pay the first $10,000 toward it, I'd have a quite different reaction. But this seems to me no different from agitating for "free healthcare" without even mentioning who might pay for it, just, "it should be free!"
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I'm fine with advertisements in desktop apps. Those guys have to make money. But I think there should be a way to pay a fee and forcibly remove them even if the developer didn't code for it. It's your machine, after all.
There's ads in Microsoft bundled apps as well[1], not just third party developers. [1] http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/microsoft-cheapens-windows...
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Oracle's attempt is pretty lame in comparison to the methods of their tech peers. Apple, Microsoft and Google ship entire mobile operating systems filled with software to collect data and have built vast app stores filled with spyware that does not offer the user a chance to opt out.
But what makes Oracle's acts so lame is that the actually respect enterprise and don't bake the spyware in. Their peers, on the other hand, push BYOD.
I already voted: I uninstalled Java from every Windows PC I have.