Next news: you have to pay adobe for photoshop. Just the usual info, because there are so many disinfo spread: Java’s reference implementation is OpenJDK, deve

Next news: you have to pay adobe for photoshop. Just the usual info, because there are so many disinfo spread: Java’s reference implementation is OpenJDK, developed 95% by Oracle. This has the same license as the linux kernel, it’s completely open-source. Similarly to how different distros pre-build the kernel for you, there are OpenJDK “distros”, like OracleJDK, Adoptium, etc. These are, for all practical purposes equivalent code-wise with the upstream project, Oracle has open-sourced almost every enterprise-only feature from the Sun times. So java is and will always be completely free. There is another dimension: support. Just as Red Hat sells support services to their linux distro, Oracle and other companies also offer such (which certain government companies might legally require, but otherwise you most likely know about it if you need it). The question of LTS: just as most open-source projects, development happens at master, backporting work to older versions is a significant undertaking. So your best bet at all times is to use the latest version, released every 6 months. Companies having their own builds define LTSs themselves.