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A comment on Oracle’s Java 11 trap. Parent comment

Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by misabon on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:13PM (#18077432)
Haha the plethora of GPL violations that exist without consequence sort of illustrate your point quite well.
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Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by StreamBright on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:37PM (#18077703)
You think if Oracle's legal team is after your company you get a free get out of license violation card?
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Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by misabon on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:41PM (#18077743)
Haha, I’m not playing that game because I’m lawsuit averse but I’m not surprised people are successful at it. This JDK includes telemetry so it just got a lot more dangerous to play but otherwise I’d guess license violations are pervasive at small shops.
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Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by malka on Friday September 28, 2018 @04:41AM (#18091856)
even at big ones.
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