I can't think of any other popular language that requires payment for security updates. Node supports an LTS version, Python support for 2.7 extends to 2020 [1]

I can't think of any other popular language that requires payment for security updates. Node supports an LTS version, Python support for 2.7 extends to 2020 [1] despite Python 3 being released in 2008, Microsoft still provides support for .NET 3.5 Framework released in 2007. Java 9 was released in July, 2017 that's nowhere near sufficient time to force an upgrade. This is just Oracle being Oracle and finding another way to fleece their Customers, many of which were Customers of Sun who would never pull a move with such contempt like this. [1] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/