Comment 9 for bug 884252

@Sylvestre Ledru: the current situation in Ubuntu strikes me as very unsatisfactory. I think that OpenJDK is the choice of preference (which it is anyhow, because it's default), but I stress the word "choice".

The license issue of non-free Java can be solved like the issue of non-free Flash: a package with script that downloads Java from the upstream's page and installs it. Please make this possible...

This would solve the dangerous insecurity that users of Lucid, Maverick and Natty are facing now (while being unaware of it!). Plus it would offer the choice to Oneiric users and beyond, to install Oracle Java JRE *if they choose to*. And sometimes, they are even forced to, because unfortunately OpenJDK doesn't *always* perform as well as Oracle Java.

Comme La Rochefoucauld a dit: il faut tenir à une résolution parce qu'elle est bonne, et non parce qu'on l'a prise....

You and I know how to install Oracle Java manually. I have even published a how-to on my website: http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/java
But most people don't know how to do it manually. Which may cause beginners with Linux, to revert to their original operating system in frustration. That would not be good....