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by robertwt7 1389 days ago
It does sound confusing. Just like the different versions of java and distributions that we have now as well.

I don’t think they’ll ever do it though, given the history of oracle
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kaba0 1389 days ago
What is confusing about there being like 10 OpenJDK forks, but for all practical purposes they are identical even more so than linux distros.

And if you want paid support you ca choose for example OracleJDK, which is otherwise feature-equivalent to OpenJDK (as it is also just a tiny fork), which’s LTS version is free for the next LTS+1 year. This is the same model as Red Hat Linux vs Fedora.

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vips7L 1389 days ago
Gets even worse with IBM/Eclipse marketing OpenJ9 with OpenJdk which has nothing do with the OpenJdk project and is a completely different VM implementation.
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chasil 1389 days ago
Just imagine how fans of Solaris and ZFS feel.
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