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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by throwaway3984 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:52AM (#16920331)
> Companies used to be able to rely on the same version of Java for years AND get security etc updates, without paying Oracle (and before that, SUN).

People have already had years of support for Java 8 including support updates. By 2019 they will have had five years of it. Nothing's changed.

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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by coldtea on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:28AM (#16921786)
As you said: "People have already had years of support for Java 8 including support updates".

What's changed is that this wont be the case anymore for 9, 10, 11, and so on.

Plus, after 9, each new release will be out in 3-6 months (can't remember which) instead of years. And support for the previous n-1 release will end in the same day.

Plus, despite their frequency they'll have major language changes (whereas usually Java did much smaller scale changes + full backwards compatibility).

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