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> They are so hell bent to give things away Wow, we've really come full circle on this. If you're a business who wants to simply use the official Java JRE to
by Bluecobra 5y ago
> They are so hell bent to give things away
Wow, we've really come full circle on this. If you're a business who wants to simply use the official Java JRE to run Java applications you now have to pay Oracle for a license.
- looperhacks 5y agoThis is false. You can (and always could) get the free OpenJDK, which is built and distributed by Oracle. It doesn't get much more "official". If you have some specific needs, you can pay for enterprise support, i.e. the Oracle JDK. Since some months(?) you can also get the Oracle JDK for free (and use it commercially). But you have to pay for extended support. The free support given by the Oracle JDK is until a new major version is released (for non-lts versions) or one year after the next LTS version (which currently is released every two years). https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/free-java-license https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/moving-the-jdk-to-a-two-year-lts-cadence https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/moving-the-jdk-to-a-two-y...
- kaba0 5y agoHonestly, at this point I’m not sure if it’s just blind stupid hatred for Oracle, or deliberately spreading libel. Oracle was the goddamn company that completely open-sourced Java for the first time to begin with. There are no longer paid-only tools in OracleJDK. Recently, they even made the support version free to use, and then people go on and claim this bullshit.
- _old_dude_ 5y agoOracle did not open sourced Java, Sun did before dying. But you are right that Oracle unified all paid/free versions of Java under the OpenJDK banner, even Android is using the OpenJDK now.