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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by merb on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @07:13AM (#16920432)
well basically they force people to openjdk.
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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by dboreham on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:09AM (#16920741)
Who is fixing security bugs in old openjdk releases?
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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by anthk_ on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @09:20AM (#16921267)
OpenBSD uses OpenJDK8 in -stable.
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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by peoplewindow on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @04:53PM (#16926034)
And OpenBSD has large numbers of skilled VM engineers sitting around doing nothing?

OpenJDK is Oracle. They're the same people. If Oracle stop releasing bug fixes to the open source project OpenBSD isn't going to step up and suddenly start doing backports all themselves.

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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by noJavain2019 on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @07:55AM (#16920662)
... which they most probably will shut down next year. Remember Open Solaris? ...
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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by gargravarr on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:24AM (#16920845)
OpenSolaris does still exist, it was forked and continues under the OpenIndiana name now. I think Oracle's major claim over the project was the use of the 'Solaris' name for copyright reasons. I hope that three letters would be a lot harder to assert copyright over, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by mbreese on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @09:05AM (#16921142)
Trademark... trademark reasons.
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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by gargravarr on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @12:50PM (#16923430)
You're right, I get those mixed up.
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