Comment by piva00
1 day ago
> So you mean all those universities and other places that have been forced to spend $$$ on licenses under the new regime also can't be taken seriously ? Are you saying none of them took advice and had nobody on staff to tell them OpenJDK exists ?
This info is actually quite surprising to me, never heard of it since everywhere I know switched to OpenJDK-based alternatives from the get-go. There was no reason to keep on the Oracle one after the licencing shenanigans they tried to play.
Why do these places kept the Oracle JDK and ended up paying for it? OpenJDK was a drop-in replacement, nothing of value is lost by switching...
TL;DR: Its impossible to know if anyone on campus has downloaded Oracle Java....Oracle monitors downloads and sends in the auditors...
See link/quote in my earlier reply above.
The licensing thing is such FUD man. Oracle being a terrible company is in no way a decent argument that Java should not be used.
> Oracle being a terrible company is in no way a decent argument that Java should not be used.
Weird, to me that is a strong argument. Choose your stewards.