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by pwdisswordfish5 1969 days ago
> Basically you want free beer like Linux? Get a distribution from OpenJDK.

After the Oracle lawsuit, why should people feel safe believing that Oracle will respect the terms of the license instead of trying to extract more money and subject you to a costly lawsuit?
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JAlexoid 1969 days ago
Oracle's lawsuit was for modifying the license.

GPL with Classpath exception covers you well enough.

Google skipped on the GPL license, so they don't get the benefits of that license.... unlike all Java users.

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kaba0 1969 days ago
Do you trust Linux? It has the exact same license. Do you have any source where Oracle issued a lawsuit for lawful use of a license?
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pjmlp 1969 days ago
The same way they felt safe after Sun won over Microsoft.
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tw25980549 1969 days ago
... what? That's a non-answer.
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pjmlp 1969 days ago
Sure it is, Android Java === Google's J++, and the hammer shall fall just as hard.

Google had the opportunity to own Java, decided it wasn't worth the money, so now they should suffer the long due penalty.

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tw25980549 1969 days ago
That's still not an answer. You're avoiding the question and... I don't know, answering some other question that no one asked, it looks like.

If a company has the option between OpenJDK and its "free" license or paying Oracle for a different license, why would anyone feel safe choosing the former, given that when you deal with Oracle, you deal with the risk of wasting as much money or more to defend yourself in court than the price of Oracle's paid option? Open source licenses are only as good as as the belief by the licensing party that the terms of the license mean anything.

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pjmlp 1969 days ago
My dear, Oracle SDK == OpenJDK + JFR license + support.

If you don't want to give money to Oracle, there are plenty of other companies to choose from, including Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Alibaba, SAP, Azul.

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tw25980549 1969 days ago
Once again, you have avoided the question (although you've spiced it up this time with some additional condescension).

You listed OpenJDK as a viable "free" option. Defend it, or don't, but stop trying to pivot the conversation while pretending that changing the subject is a valid answer answer to the thing that was asked.

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