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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by pgwhalen on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:34PM (#17881393)
That’s not much of an answer. If anything, it seems to me like Oracle is seeding more control to the community. I could be wrong though, I don’t follow this stuff as close as some.
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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by humbleMouse on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:37PM (#17881411)
Coming sometime this winter they will require a license to use java 9 and up.

Below is a link for the downvoters and skeptics:

https://www.aspera.com/en/blog/oracle-will-charge-for-java-s...

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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by karianna on Thursday August 30, 2018 @06:52PM (#17881515)
Oh dear - the FUD is strong with this one. You’re only required to buy a commercial license if you use Oracle’s JDK beyond their free public updates timeframe and if you want the subsequent security patches etc from Oracle. There are also a whole bunch of $free (and $commercial) OpenJDK alternatives by Azul, RedHat, IBM, AdoptOpenJDK, distrust etc.
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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by humbleMouse on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:02PM (#17881577)
What does FUD mean in this context?

edit: I looked it up.

Your comment is obviously correct and valid. However, my stance is unchanged. I will stick to openjdk8 and avoid oracle regulatory influence.

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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by lemming on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:10PM (#17881928)
Here is the rebuttal which shows that this is patently false for all actual use cases: http://blog.joda.org/2018/08/java-is-still-available-at-zero...
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Re:Java’s new garbage collector promises low pause times on ... by kjeetgill on Thursday August 30, 2018 @07:37PM (#17881774)
The first sentence from your link:

> Oracle has announced that, effective January 2019, Java SE 8 public updates will no longer be available for "Business, Commercial or Production use" without a commercial license.

Anything you can get now is still free and GPL open sourced. All they're doing is no longer publishing NEW CODE (in the form of backports and bug fixes) to the OpenJDK 8 branch. Instead they're publishing it to OracleJDK.

They're not trying to kill GPL anymore than Redhat is trying to Linux.

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