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Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To by josephcsible on Monday July 10, 2023 @12:52PM (#36669095)
> Oracle has been a remarkably good steward of Java

Well, other than ramming through modules and the --add-opens fiasco from Java 9.

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Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To by musicale on Monday July 10, 2023 @07:58PM (#36674756)
And that stupid lawsuit.
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Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To by vram22 on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @03:45AM (#36677717)
What was the issue about modules?
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Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To by josephcsible on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @04:43PM (#36686960)
The point of using setAccessible with reflection was to access private fields and methods, and the module features in Java 9 made that impossible without passing a gigantic list of command-line flags to every invocation of Java.
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