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by fomine3 2099 days ago
Maybe you should call not LTS but "Oracle's LTS" ? OpenJDK is open so any company should be able to provide own "LTS" but it's differ from Oracle's LTS and you argue that Oracle's LTS is superior than others. (I agree Oracle has great resource to maintain LTS and still manages CVEs)

> Anyway, the important thing to know is that there is only one version that is fully supported for free -- the current one, and so the safe choices are either some paid LTS or the current version.

It looks like overstatement for me but reasonable perspective for Oracle employee.

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What I'm saying is that you can buy LTS from Oracle, Red Hat, Bellsoft, or Azul -- that's how all of them make their money off of OpenJDK -- but not a single one of them offers it for free (and neither does Amazon, whose JDK staff is smaller than or similar to Bellsoft's).