The trouble with this sort of argument is that it's not always clear what the bug is, only where it is.
For example, I work on browser-hosted user interfaces that sometimes rely on Java applets. I don't know why an applet frequently doesn't work with IcedTea. All I hear back via customers-of-clients is "Your interface doesn't work on Linux".
The advice to uninstall IcedTea and replace it with Sun's (OK, Oracle's) version is now as routine to our client's support people as telling someone with Windows troubles to reboot was a few years ago. That answer has a 100% success rate with these "bugs" so far, so I don't suppose those support staff are going to change their policy any time soon.
As a software developer, I appreciate that this is not at all helpful to those working on OpenJDK/IcedTea. However, as a guy whose rent is paid by what he earns from his clients, I can't recommend that anyone use IcedTea for anything until its well-deserved (in our experience) reputation for poor reliability is addressed.
I was using a double negative, so I never meant to or did say that OpenJDK isn't suitable for production. Apologies for the confusing phrasing if you misunderstood me, but I was stating the opposite of what you seem to have assumed.
For example, I work on browser-hosted user interfaces that sometimes rely on Java applets. I don't know why an applet frequently doesn't work with IcedTea. All I hear back via customers-of-clients is "Your interface doesn't work on Linux".
The advice to uninstall IcedTea and replace it with Sun's (OK, Oracle's) version is now as routine to our client's support people as telling someone with Windows troubles to reboot was a few years ago. That answer has a 100% success rate with these "bugs" so far, so I don't suppose those support staff are going to change their policy any time soon.
As a software developer, I appreciate that this is not at all helpful to those working on OpenJDK/IcedTea. However, as a guy whose rent is paid by what he earns from his clients, I can't recommend that anyone use IcedTea for anything until its well-deserved (in our experience) reputation for poor reliability is addressed.