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Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC by josefx on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:51AM (#14306824)
Oracle is suing companies that explicitly enable commercial features of its commercial JVM. Next up: Microsoft broke my "free" copy of Windows XP, are they evil? /s
Re:JDK 9 modules voted down by EC by ubernostrum on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @06:24AM (#14307159)
I don't have direct experience of this, but the general accusation I see is that companies hire Oracle to set up their systems, and Oracle's own people swear on a stack of bibles that the setup is in compliance, but behind the scenes they'll have enabled things that require more expensive licenses, and which Oracle knows are enabled and knows they can come back to shake you down for (sorry, "audit") later on.