Oracle moved away from their "free" license to requiring a $100 or $200 per seat license for home users (and I think even more for business users), so the clock

Oracle moved away from their "free" license to requiring a $100 or $200 per seat license for home users (and I think even more for business users), so the clock stopped ticking at Java 8u202 for a lot of people who refused to (or couldn't) move to OpenJDK. edit: although this appears to have recently changed! https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license It was really a terrible idea from a security perspective - and unfortunately there are organizations that won't consider software without a support contract.