Lol brb gonna share this with the CFO and watch them go into a panic. Going to bet they’ll freak out and by the end of 2024, no more Java for us.
This is the golden ticket I’ve been waiting for.
Oracle is a law firm with a large IT department.
They’ve been giving us shit because they “see downloads from our IP addresses”. It’s an absolute shake-down operation. They let anybody download their poisoned jvm for free and then tell your company that they now owe them a fortune.
It’s time for corporate IT to block that download
We’d love to but we do have some legitimate needs for it since Oracle software requires their jvm. It’s a massive pain in the ass.
Openjdk: https://openjdk.org/
Or for people that use jre or want installers: https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html
We just went through all of this and we just switched to openjdk without issues.
You didn’t seem to understand. Oracle only supports their own jvm when running their software that uses Java (e.g. weblogic).
I know it may not be an easy question to answer, but does your company really owe them money? I’m guessing that their other software that uses their JVM also has a license, so they should be more clear about the company having to license out the JVM in order to use it. This sounds like a scam that comes packaged along with some other software.
Oh - sorry, Oracle offers a free “entitlement” to use the JVM when used with their software if it’s required. We don’t pay extra for the Oracle JVM.
Is anyone else in this thread surprised people weren’t using OpenJDK this whole time?
I’m actually not that shocked. Corporations make weird corporate decisions all the time because they feel as if they’re getting the more professional version or something. They tend to view open source projects as either unprofessional or in some complicated way, actually illegal. Like it’ll turn out that open source isn’t allowed after all.
This is what happens when lawyers who don’t actually know what they’re talking about make recommendations. They don’t know, so they always advise caution. Also they genuinely don’t seem to know the difference between pirated software and open source.
The reason corporation are like that is because the responsibility is with the employee the decided to use the open source tool, when there is another company backing a product, there is someone to hold accountable. Also, there is a support number if shit hits the fan, and guarantee of support long term if the supplier is financial healthy.
STOP USING JAVA
It’s so easy to use openjdk. I think the lesson is stop using oracle
My employer has a pretty large presence in AWS. We finished migrating to Amazon’s Corretto (based on openjdk) months ago. It was pretty painless given we already use Amazon’s Linux distros.
What could possibly go wrong with locking yourself into an environment owned by Amazon, or Google or Microsoft?
What’s the lockin? Is it really harder than just swapping the jdk path to switch between Coretto and OpenJDK? I understand Coretto being preferable for performance and security patches but I don’t imagine it’s that big of a deal if one eventually had to switch
It’s not a big deal. Java haters know very little about Java.
You’re getting downvoted because you spoke the truth.
