Linked by David Adams on Mon 19th Dec 2011 17:05 UTC, submitted by lucas_maximus

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If Oracle says that JRE 1.7 is based in OpenJDK, then JRE 1.7 should not work with some legacy apps too.
That means they have broken the legacy, not that they removed Java license from Ubuntu to screw up consumers.
The question may be. How different are the binaries of OpenJDK against Oracle Java 7 JRE?
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Yes, there are compatibility problems. Many third party applications don't work with OpenJDK yet. Crashplan is one and I'm sure there are others. Yes, I'm sure that it's the fault of those those applications but the net effect from a user's point of view is still that they can run it with Sun JDK and not with OpenJDK.