Open Letter to Oracle: Quit Installing McAfee with Java Updates

8 points by cl8ton 11 years ago | 3 comments

I know you have a checkbox that you can uncheck. It seems that checkbox moves around and sometimes camouflages itself really well.

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.

Quit doing this! I now have to wait until install is done and remove it.

UnoriginalGuy 11 years ago |

This has been said many-a-time and by, frankly, bigger names.

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't exactly a company who cares about how much they're liked.

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't spyware/malware, we can be thankful of that (jokes about McAfee aside, it is still better than the Ask Toolbar in my view).

staunch 11 years ago |

Don't expect an evil corporation to stop being evil. It's not an accident. Just hit them where it hurts by never buying their products and always telling people that they suck.

Oracle sucks.

Spoom 11 years ago |

End users of Java aren't Oracle's customers, so they don't care.