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by fayten 1234 days ago
This is correct, these pricing changes are only regarding enterprise licenses for Oracles specific build of Java. Builds of openjdk are free to use and the Eclipse foundation provides builds here: https://adoptium.net/ Many other companies provide OpenJdK builds for free alongside offering a paid JDK.

An example is Azul, they release a free build of Openjdk named Zulu, but also sell a custom JDK that includes a custom high performance GC.

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> Many other companies provide OpenJdK builds for free

Including Oracle, by the way. You don't have to buy a commercially supported version if you don't want to pay for Java.