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Open Letter to Oracle: Quit Installing McAfee with Java Updates

8 pointsby cl8tonover 10 years ago
I know you have a checkbox that you can uncheck. It seems that checkbox moves around and sometimes camouflages itself really well.<p>Is this really how you want to sell software to customers? By slight of hand measures? I didn’t even see it this PM updating Java on my VM Win8 but there it was 2’nd inline to install after Java.<p>Quit doing this! I now have to wait until install is done and remove it.

3 comments

UnoriginalGuyover 10 years ago
This has been said many-a-time and by, frankly, bigger names.<p>Unless we can come up with an alternative revenue source to suggest Oracle use instead to fund client-Java then it will continue no matter how disapproving everyone is. Oracle isn&#x27;t exactly a company who cares about how much they&#x27;re liked.<p>I have no idea exactly how much McAfee pays Oracle, but I also have no suggestions for alternative revenue sources (as ads on the download page are poor generators). At least it isn&#x27;t spyware&#x2F;malware, we can be thankful of that (jokes about McAfee aside, it is still better than the Ask Toolbar in my view).
staunchover 10 years ago
Don&#x27;t expect an evil corporation to stop being evil. It&#x27;s not an accident. Just hit them where it hurts by never buying their products and always telling people that they suck.<p>Oracle sucks.
Spoomover 10 years ago
End users of Java aren&#x27;t Oracle&#x27;s customers, so they don&#x27;t care.