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The Oracle situation doesn’t get heated at all, and that’s just not how Java vendors work — basically everything is 100% open-source OpenJDK, some companies jus
by kaba0 4y ago
The Oracle situation doesn’t get heated at all, and that’s just not how Java vendors work — basically everything is 100% open-source OpenJDK, some companies just take it, add some marketing bullshit, possibly backport some bugfixes for older versions, and sell a support license for their “vendor”.
It is pretty much what Red Hat Linux does to linux.
Here I expanded a bit more on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35249701 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35249701