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Some time ago I read a pertinent comment from someone working on JDK here on HN. Unfortunately I can't find it, so I'll have to paraphrase: Even though Adoptiu
by Cu3PO42 5y ago
Some time ago I read a pertinent comment from someone working on JDK here on HN. Unfortunately I can't find it, so I'll have to paraphrase:
Even though Adoptium has some big names backing it, they aren't big contributors to Java. This is relevant because it implies they get access to not-yet-publicly-diclosed vulnerabilities and the corresponding patches later than other projects. Rather, one should try to use a distribution by one of the major contributors, for example Red Hat or SAP.
Since I cannot currently provide the source and I cannot personally verify this either, take this with a grain of salt.
- solarengineer 5y agoYou are undoubtedly referring to pron's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28821316 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28821316
- karianna 5y agoThe folks who work at Adoptium contain many OpenJDK committers (especially from Red Hat and Microsoft) so it does contribute back (but you’ll see folks using their company addresses). I agree that can confuse folks