I guess is people were using the oracle VM without license and were caught.
Oracle makes it very easy to not notice that the Java distribution you download requires payment.
Yes that’s it, they offer it for download. People click " I agree" and install. Then it phones home and oracle knocks on your door with huge license fee and or lawsuit.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
on 13 Jun 23:24
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Skipping past the usual deserved ‘fuck Oracle’, what reason do universities (or most organisations for that matter) have to ever use Oracle’s Java? The likes of OpenJDK seem to provide identical functionality for anyone who isn’t specifically supporting Oracle Java customers, and I doubt unis are raising many JDK bugs that warrant paying for support.
This is a reason of why we should avoid using Oracle Java, especially for commercial purposes and in-use for enterprise purposes, and we can see here, its also cost for education institutional too.
Java is still free, but just avoiding using Oracle Java. Oracle providing OpenJDK for free too, but guess, there are third-party ‘forks’ which seems is more better. Here’s the website you can consult: whichjdk.com and the author of that website recommends: Adoptium Temurin, Azul Zulu, Bellsoft Liberica, & Amazon Corretto.
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“[…] In exchange for a waiver of fees accrued since 2023”
Sounds like Oracle got them with the good 'ol “buy an even bigger license or we’ll sue you”
This is why you don’t fuck with WinRar
Fuck WinRAR.
7zip ftw
I guess is people were using the oracle VM without license and were caught. Oracle makes it very easy to not notice that the Java distribution you download requires payment.
Yes that’s it, they offer it for download. People click " I agree" and install. Then it phones home and oracle knocks on your door with huge license fee and or lawsuit.
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they are tons of cheaper and free java vendors. There is little reason to choose Oracle’s
Skipping past the usual deserved ‘fuck Oracle’, what reason do universities (or most organisations for that matter) have to ever use Oracle’s Java? The likes of OpenJDK seem to provide identical functionality for anyone who isn’t specifically supporting Oracle Java customers, and I doubt unis are raising many JDK bugs that warrant paying for support.
This is a reason of why we should avoid using Oracle Java, especially for commercial purposes and in-use for enterprise purposes, and we can see here, its also cost for education institutional too.
Java is still free, but just avoiding using Oracle Java. Oracle providing OpenJDK for free too, but guess, there are third-party ‘forks’ which seems is more better. Here’s the website you can consult: whichjdk.com and the author of that website recommends: Adoptium Temurin, Azul Zulu, Bellsoft Liberica, & Amazon Corretto.
Personally, Im stick to using Amazon Corretto 😅
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