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by bradleyjg 1738 days ago
Let’s say Oracle sues Red Hat (now IBM), so what? Are android devs all totally screwed because Oracle sued Google?

I’m not going to defend Oracle’s business practices but this seems like FUD. You can use Red Hat, Amazon, or Azul’s jvm. If it’s too “scary” to do so for your company than you need better executives and/or lawyers.
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boulos 1738 days ago
> If it’s too “scary” to do so for your company than you need better executives and/or lawyers.

That is the point though. It's sort of obvious if you read through the terms. But if you're at a company that is already afraid of words like GPL, the JDK is "now" also scary.

At the same time, even if your legal department are scared of Oracle (and really just stories of "I heard Oracle sued Google"), I claim that the Corretto docs (and similar) are quite clear.

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bradleyjg 1738 days ago
But if you're at a company that is already afraid of words like GPL, the JDK is "now" also scary.

These companies either only develop software peripherally to their business, in which case sticking with java 8 is probably going to be fine, if silly, or they are the walking dead.

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