Comment by hardwaresofton

Thanks for the explanation -- back when I wrote Java, it was a choice between "Oracle Java" (i.e. Oracle JDK) and the OpenJDK -- where you downloaded was different and what you agreed to download was different.

> If you use Oracle OpenJDK in production to the best of my knowledge you are probably still on the hook for the licensing fees.

I'd be surprised by this but I guess that is par for the course.

> At my company we use RedHat OpenJDK on RedHat VMs and Eclipse Temurin OpenJDK in docker containers.

Thanks for clarifying -- do you find any differences that were important? Or is it more you've never needed the Oracle distribution so you never had reason to find out?

I'm just wondering why anyone would choose Oracle's distribution in this day and age. Who are their main customers that are happy to be customers?