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by stronglikedan 271 days ago
All that just seems like friction when there are frictionless alternatives available. Life's too short for friction.
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Quekid5 271 days ago
You usually have to explictly opt-in to installing an Oracle JDK because... you know, they have a license agreement that you must agree to.

So there's no friction, everyone uses the OSS ones unless you have very specific needs.

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lenkite 270 days ago
Can you explain what the friction is ? If you download and install the ActiveState Python distribution in a commercial setting and accept the license agreement without reading and get sued legally at a later point, will you say Python has too much friction ?

Just go to https://openjdk.org/ and click "Download". Or say `brew install openjdk` (macOS) / `apt install openjdk` (linux).

ZERO friction.

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samus 270 days ago
There is no friction. Don't use commercial products if you don't want to pay for them. End of story.
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