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Re:Thank You, Guido by betaby on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:26PM (#21401533)
Java is paid platform without clear pricing, licensing and patents.
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Re:Thank You, Guido by Discombulator on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @05:27PM (#21402965)
Many (most) JDK distributions are free for all usages and fully open source.

Can you give some references for the patents issue you mentioned?

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Re:Thank You, Guido by betaby on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @06:03PM (#21403321)
So you agreed pricing and licensing is not clear? If still not, here is the source https://upperedge.com/knowledge-center/documents/oracle-podc... As for the patents I don't have a source quickly available. Pricing and licensing are already bad enough. If I sell java based software, customers have to worry about licensing from Oracle. If I sell SaS I have to worry for what and how to pay. Those factors are big risks.
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