“[…] In exchange for a waiver of fees accrued since 2023”
Sounds like Oracle got them with the good 'ol “buy an even bigger license or we’ll sue you”
UK unis sign up to £10M Oracle Java subscription framework
Submitted 1 day ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/13/jisc_java_oracle/
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bjorney@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
sanzky@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I guess is people were using the oracle VM without license and were caught. Oracle makes it very easy to not notice that the Java distribution you download requires payment.
leds@feddit.dk 23 hours ago
Yes that’s it, they offer it for download. People click " I agree" and install. Then it phones home and oracle knocks on your door with huge license fee and or lawsuit.
LWD@lemm.ee 1 day ago
This is why you don’t fuck with WinRar
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Fuck WinRAR.
sanzky@beehaw.org 1 day ago
they are tons of cheaper and free java vendors. There is little reason to choose Oracle’s
smeg@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Skipping past the usual deserved ‘fuck Oracle’, what reason do universities (or most organisations for that matter) have to ever use Oracle’s Java? The likes of OpenJDK seem to provide identical functionality for anyone who isn’t specifically supporting Oracle Java customers, and I doubt unis are raising many JDK bugs that warrant paying for support.
bandarbaru_1@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
This is a reason of why we should avoid using Oracle Java, especially for commercial purposes and in-use for enterprise purposes, and we can see here, its also cost for education institutional too.
Java is still free, but just avoiding using Oracle Java. Oracle providing OpenJDK for free too, but guess, there are third-party ‘forks’ which seems is more better. Here’s the website you can consult: whichjdk.com and the author of that website recommends: Adoptium Temurin, Azul Zulu, Bellsoft Liberica, & Amazon Corretto.
Personally, Im stick to using Amazon Corretto 😅
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