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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)

submitted 5 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 41 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is anyone else in this thread surprised people weren't using OpenJDK this whole time?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm actually not that shocked. Corporations make weird corporate decisions all the time because they feel as if they're getting the more professional version or something. They tend to view open source projects as either unprofessional or in some complicated way, actually illegal. Like it'll turn out that open source isn't allowed after all.

This is what happens when lawyers who don't actually know what they're talking about make recommendations. They don't know, so they always advise caution. Also they genuinely don't seem to know the difference between pirated software and open source.

[–] Avg@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The reason corporation are like that is because the responsibility is with the employee the decided to use the open source tool, when there is another company backing a product, there is someone to hold accountable. Also, there is a support number if shit hits the fan, and guarantee of support long term if the supplier is financial healthy.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Also corruption where the person choosing to pay Oracle also is an owner of Oracle.

[–] Fungah@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

I'm currently involved in a legal case in which I produced audio recordings. I was questioned intensely by the other sides lawyer about the modified date on windows.

I kept asking him to clarify what he meant by modified until he said "I don't know".

Like. Ffs.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

OpenJDK misses some parts that are in the Oracle JVM

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OpenJDK is the reference implementation now. Biggest differences I've seen are in the default list of trusted CAs.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about JavaFX? It's included in the Oracle JVM but not in the others afaik.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

JavaFX was removed from the main Java spec in Java 11. Even the Oracle Java distribution. It's a separate project now and is pretty easy to include as as jar if needed. In fact there are non-Oracle builds of the JVM that do add it (there are Zulu builds that put it back in). Because Java is now GPL. Anyone can create a build and include what they want.

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Not anymore, they changed it so they are identical except for the license