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but how would that apply to their explicit example of a Java SE 8 computer game ? and the next paragraph is a thinly veiled threat to developers of such a hypot
by DoctorOetker 9y ago
but how would that apply to their explicit example of a Java SE 8 computer game ? and the next paragraph is a thinly veiled threat to developers of such a hypothetical game: developers, pay us or we will direct your players' complaints to you (or have fun explaining to all your players on different platforms to either install openjdk or fully remove and reinstall some old copy of Java 8 SE from some mirror somewhere, and explaining them they must from now on ignore the update notifications).
I imagine the Oracle JRE will show an error message dialog to the player, containing a URL to this or similar page.
- peoplewindow 9y agodevelopers, pay us or we will direct your players' complaints to you How is that even remotely unreasonable though? The game example is poor for a different reason; Oracle don't seem to care about desktop apps anymore and they want you to bundle the JVM with your app anyway. Hence new tools like jlink and javapackager.
- DoctorOetker 9y agoI think it would be very unreasonable if a player's "updated" JRE would refuse to run a non-updated application that perfectly worked the day before, on the simple basis of not the developer not paying Oracle. Consider a user on windows with Oracle JRE, using some FOSS Java software. Suddenly he can't run his Java application, because the FOSS developer does not pay Oracle, and the FOSS developer gets flooded with hate mail.
- peoplewindow 9y agoWho is suggesting that will happen? I suspect you aren't quite sure about what "support" means here. It doesn't mean your app suddenly stops working one day. For most apps it'll make no difference in fact.