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> Use OpenJDK! Never touch anything from Oracle. But OpenJDK is Oracle's. They are the primary contributors to the project, and they really made it 100% open-s
by severino 6y ago
> Use OpenJDK! Never touch anything from Oracle.
But OpenJDK is Oracle's. They are the primary contributors to the project, and they really made it 100% open-source.
- ivan_gammel 6y agoIt is not a big deal as long as it’s still run as independent project. There are plenty of other big players interested in keeping reference implementation vendor-neutral.
- pulse7 6y agoYou can use any other fork/build like AdoptOpenJDK or any other. It is open-source like Linux Kernel...
- severino 6y agoYou can use AdoptOpenJDK or Azul or whatever, but you will be using code largely from Oracle. I don't think there is any problem with that, but the OP said "never touch anything from Oracle".
- skeeks 6y agoDespite Oracle being the primary contributors, there are other big companies (IBM, Apple, Microsoft, etc.) [1] supporting OpenJDK. And this are only the big companies, there are so much medium/little companies just using Java as a language without actively sponsoring/supporting the OpenJDK project. IMHO, there is no possible way that the OpenJDK (and Java) arent going to be enhanced further for many many years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#Collaboration_with_IBM.2C_Apple.2C_and_SAP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK#Collaboration_with_IBM...
- severino 6y agoI know, I just wanted to point out that you cannot use OpenJDK and at the same time not use anything from Oracle.