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by znpy 272 days ago
Java is essentially open source enough that you can ignore oracle. All the development of java happen in openjdk, of which oracle is a contributor (along with red hat and many others). Oracle’s java is just an openjdk distribution, with some additional proprietary bits.

Pulling the oracle card when java is mentioned is a useless stunt.
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Joel_Mckay 272 days ago
The OpenJDK has come a long way, but is still less than ideal.

Do you actually use that option at enterprise scale? =3

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fiddlerwoaroof 272 days ago
Everywhere I’ve worked has used Eclipse Temurin or another open source release: the Oracle JVM isn’t used all that often because of license issues.
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Tostino 272 days ago
Ditto. Even things like Java flight recorder are open source now and work with any JDK distribution.
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Joel_Mckay 272 days ago
YOLO =3

https://openjdk.org/groups/vulnerability/advisories/

https://app.opencve.io/cve/?product=openjdk&vendor=oracle

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znpy 270 days ago
I’ve always used openjdk or amazon’s flavour (i think it’s called “corretto”?).

It’s much better than ideal.

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Joel_Mckay 270 days ago
If it spans your use-cases, than that is great. =3
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