Re:Java SE 8 business users must buy a licence from Jan 2019...
by coldtea on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:28AM
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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).
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).