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This problem has been known and complained about for ages. What's the community response? We have OpenJDK, why does anyone put up with an abusive installer from Oracle?

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Because Windows is not a supported platform? You have to find an unofficial build or build it yourself.

Is anyone distributing 64bit OpenJDK builds for windows?

EDIT: I found: https://github.com/alexkasko/openjdk-unofficial-builds

Just the word 'unofficial' is enough to stop most large companies using them. It is (was?) the same with Firefox- they never offered an MSI installer for use on corporate networks. There were unofficial versions, but you could never be sure that someone hadn't bundled something extra in there.

"but you could never be sure that someone hadn't bundled something extra in there".

Irony,

With Oracle, your are SURE.

Well, this thing about Java shows that you can trust not even official versions...

Is there an OpenJRE(or even a need)? or do we just run OpenJDK?

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