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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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