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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by X-Istence on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:21AM (#16921731)
Python does LTS, although they don't explicitly call it LTS:

https://devguide.python.org/#status-of-python-branches

Each Python version is supported for 5 years. So if you start building on Python 3.6 you are guaranteed to have a supported version till 2021. Upgrade to 3.7 (due out in June) when released and you'll be set till 2023.

So yes, Python does offer free LTS.

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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by peapicker on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:59AM (#16922081)
And java 8 also has free support for 5 years (released Mar 18, 2014, free updates end on Jan 2019. (ok, 2 months short of 5 years.) The charging for support is for the stuff older than 5 years - that is the long-term support being charged for. This isn't anything new for Oracle or many other companies.
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Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019... by jbfoo on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @11:14AM (#16922230)
The problem is that you have very short window to migrate to Java 11 (next LTS) with Python there is no such problem as really each release is LTS, so you have three years to migrate from 3.6 to 3.7.
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