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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/java@programming.dev

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[–] sem@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago (7 children)

How it works when OpenJDK is distributed under GNU GPL?

[–] suzune@ani.social 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Many corps still use Oracle Java 8 which is an expensive license. In some cases they think that Oracle Java is somehow better than OpenJDK. In other cases they still use old technologies like Applets or Java Webstart.

All in all, it's in most cases technical debt.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's anything above Oracle Java8u201 more specifically, and some versions like Java 17 are currently free to use commercially.

I was part of the cleanup team where I work (force-uninstall on all machines through MECM, GPOs, and through Intune for macOS systems), good fucking riddance to these legacy apps.

[–] ms264556@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

This. Exactly the same response where I worked.

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