The Java we get from Oracle isn't very good:
- They bundle Ask.com crapware. There's a petition asking them to stop this.
- They bundle the Java plug-in (applets), even though the Java sandbox is fundamentally insecure. Applets are dangerous but not useful and I don't want them.
- They've been slow to update Java for Mac OS X.
Java is open source software. Instead of a petition, we need a volunteer to build & distribute unofficial OpenJDK builds.