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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How it works when OpenJDK is distributed under GNU GPL?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Many corps still use Oracle Java 8 which is an expensive license. In some cases they think that Oracle Java is somehow better than OpenJDK. In other cases they still use old technologies like Applets or Java Webstart.

All in all, it's in most cases technical debt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

And now it's going to become quite literal debt

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's anything above Oracle Java8u201 more specifically, and some versions like Java 17 are currently free to use commercially.

I was part of the cleanup team where I work (force-uninstall on all machines through MECM, GPOs, and through Intune for macOS systems), good fucking riddance to these legacy apps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

In some cases they think that Oracle Java is somehow better than OpenJDK.

It usually comes down to what's supported by the software vendor. OpenJDK certainly works, but it's a corporate check box.

[–] lung -5 points 2 weeks ago

I think you can use openjdk just fine & basically oracle is trying to wring the last bits of cash out of a dying language. I'm so sad Java was ever used for anything, it's a garbage fire