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Don’t forget that Oracle was guilty of shipping the AskBar as part of the JRE for the general public. That’s right, a malware which uploaded your browser history and redirected any 404 to a commercial advertising page, wrecking the web and the understanding of it for everyone.

Oracle is not to be trusted.

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That contract was signed by Sun before the acquisition and was discontinued by Oracle as soon as they could.

Didn't Sun do that too?

Sun did it originally during the waning days as well as an even worse yahoo toolbar. Oracle discontinued the contract as soon as they could after acquiring Sun.

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