Oracle finally targets Java non-payers – six years after plucking Sun

Your best bet is probably to use the OpenJDK build for Windows. It's an MSI file and it doesn't have any of the Oracle crap attached to it.

https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/overview/

This entire article is bullshit clickbait designed to appeal to select baseless biases.

It offers no meaningful content except for this single sentence:

"The Register has learned of one customer in retail with 80,000 PCs which was informed by Oracle it was in breach on Java."

There are no further details about why this customer was "targeted" or the nature of their licensing deal with Oracle.

I would think after all these years people would know that (a) the Register is a well-known source of fake news/clickbait/misleading headlines (b) Java is open-source (full-stop) and wholly free software and (c) products like "Java SE Advanced Suite" have nothing to do with the Java language or the JDK. (Though I can see why (c) would be confusing, though Sun started this product of calling everything Java XXX (tm).)

It's a shame that such an article gets written to feed advertisers useless clicks but it's really disappointing to see it on the hacker news front page.

What a bad article, unclear contents and based on only one source - which by the way wants to sell his services.

Going to the Oracle Java site the menu says:

  Java SE
  Java EE
  Java ME
  Java SE Support
  Java SE Advanced & Suite
  Java Embedded
  Java DB
  Web Tier
  Java Card
  Java TV

IANAL The article seems to be about "Java SE Advanced & Suite" including JRockit VM and other advanced tools.

The license on the Java SE download page

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

here

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/...

does not include the words

  intelligent systems
  general purpose computing

so it's unclear of what download TheRegister is talking about.

[Edit] After downloading the Windows JDK the installer says "The Java Mission Control ... is now available as a part of the JDK". There is an app "Java Mission Control" after installation. There is no click through EULA during installation. There is also no linked license in the app which I could find.

Is the term in the click-through EULA of the installer?

> On the other hand, I wonder why they do this? This can only hurt Java

because they can. because it makes money. because it works. because the people who choose to base their entire technology stack on proprietary software are used to paying exorbitant fees for stuff that's available for free because they don't have any confidence in their own ability to solve problems.

i mean, the real question is: why wouldn't they do this? everytime i see ellison's megayacht parked in santa monica bay when i drive up pch i know exactly why.

From the article

"Java SE is free but Java SE Advanced Desktop, Advanced and Suite are not. Java SE Suite, for example, costs $300 per named user with a support bill of $66; there’s a per-processor option of $15,000 with a $3,300 support bill"