Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution

Re:Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution by bigmattystyles on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @12:26PM (#26727183)

Is this timed with the Supreme Court decision? Would we be seeing this if the decision had gone the other way? Obviously they didn’t put all this together since Tuesday, but the timing makes me wonder.

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Re:Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution by kaba0 on Sunday April 11, 2021 @02:07PM (#26772203)

It has nothing to do with it. There are plenty of JVM vendors already. You either pass the test suite and call it Java, or don’t call it Java. Also, it is a fork of OpenJDK, so the test suite is free even.

The point of all this is that the platform doesn’t get fragmented, one can trivially migrate from one VM to another. J++ was sued to oblivion for adding Windows only features.

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Re:Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution by Apofis on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:07PM (#26727716)

It has to be. I'm assuming they used this internally until now.

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Re:Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution by bigmattystyles on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:20PM (#26727863)

Would internal use have even been legal if the decision had gone Oracle's way?

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Re:Microsoft unveils its own Java distribution by gaius_baltar on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:44PM (#26728219)

> Would internal use have even been legal if the decision had gone Oracle's way?

OpenJDK is GPL, so I suppose yes. I also understand that the cause for Oracle-Google lawsuit predates the GPL JDK (Google does not like GPL on Android userland after all), so its an entirely different problem.

Of course, IANAL.

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