Java Is Still Free
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Java Is Still Free
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#2Who is the author?
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#3Better source (not google docs):
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#4Who is the author?
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#5Who is the author?
There's a long list of authors at the bottom.
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#6Better source (not google docs): https://itnext.io/java-is-still-free-c02aef8c9e04
That's not the canonical source, though. From the HN guidelines:
"Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."
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#7Sure, MySQL is also still free. OpenOffice remained free until Oracle dumped it on Apache's doorstep. Neither product was ever under threat of becoming legally unfree. The problem is that people don't trust Oracle anymore. The developer community doesn't want to touch anything from Oracle with a 10-foot pole even if it's licensed under GPL.
I haven't used enough Oracle products to judge whether this sentiment is justified. But regardless of whether it is justified, the fact that Oracle doesn't seem to be making any effort to clear up possible misunderstandings suggests that they don't give a crap about their reputation with non-"enterprise" developers.
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#8I hope Java die. It's the worst programming language ever created.
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#9Hint: if you want to get a discussion going, or, in fact, have your article read in the first place, don't put it on Google docs, nor medium via link shorteners for that matter.
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#10Why don't the bigwigs like RedHat + IBM just fork it already ?
Take OpenJDK , GPL the IBM runtime and slap some stupid coffee inspired nickname on it. People will trust that more than they trust Oracle anyway...