Seems kinda intrusive if you ask me...

I have Ubuntu as well and I agree. I suppose it's somewhere's in the user's agreement?

I guess JAVA can do what it wants to do. Really sad. Flash is controlled by Adobe and I wouldn't be surprised if they take that away too. Maybe with HTML5, all of this cr@p will be mute.

What disturbs me is that Canonical thinks it has the right to arbitrarily disable and remove software from a user's machine. That used to be something only Microsoft would have the audacity to do. It's kinda sad that a popular Linux distro would stoop to that level.

Welcome to the future, where you don't own software, you just licence it from the cloud. And all your content is in the cloud where the cloud can do with it as it sees fit.

You need to look into the background of this change a little, not so much Ubuntu as a licensing issue with Oracle.

resonable article here: http://lxnews.org/2011/12/19/oracle-jav ... om-ubuntu/

Seems to be just the browser plugin that will be removed and AFAIK the "removing" will be accomplished by providing empty updates thus disabling Java. So now might be the time to pin the Java packages on your machine, although what you can do about browser updates I do not know. There is an alternative, OpenJDK, hopefully compatible with your Java applications and internet browser. I would think that many of the US based distros will follow suit, not from a FOSS/security view as per Ubuntu but from a fear of being sued.

There are always alternatives, such as LinuxMint based on Ubuntu but without the political correctness, although they do largely use the ubuntu repos. Also assuming Ocacle Java will still be available for individual installation much the same as Oracle provide VirtualBox packages.

Not a good situation as it will limit your choice.

Will this affect Ubuntu 11.10?

Nowhere do they say that Oracle will make Java *runtime* a non-fre software. By doing so they would shoot themselves in the foot (as said, there is the OpenJava one, and also the "stealth" IBM one).

The free side of Java owes a lot to Sun (now Oracle) and IBM's willingness to prevent Microsoft to rule the server world as they rule the desktop.

ok i get the theory

now the practice how to disable Ubuntu to run that updates ?

BTW and why oracle want shoot his feet ? first was the issues with OpenOffice that forced the LibreOffice fork now Java ?

One solution would be, do not update, unlike M$, an update is up to you.

Probably a better bet is to accept it and move on.

This from LinuxMint forum

http://tinyurl.com/c5zcawv

yes but i want update but preventing Java to be unistalled

OR i may just reinstall java after..or not ?

I guess things like this are just another reason to stick with FOSS, whenever possible. I use OpenJDK and never have problems.