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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by threeseed on Sunday January 04, 2015 @02:21AM (#8833722)
Blame Oracle for Java 7 not working on older OS releases.

Apple stopped maintaining Java at version 6.

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Re:Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak by bondolo on Sunday January 04, 2015 @03:23AM (#8833853)
Both were Apple's choice. Apple's Java 6 relied on proprietary interfaces that were not part of the contribution to OpenJDK. Oracle could not have even recreated the Java 6 MacOS port. The other big reason was that new MacOS versions were only x64 and going to the trouble of making a 32 bit port for only obsolete OSes was a non-starter.
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