Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019

Isn't this heavily misleading? This still seems like the charges for continuing to use old versions of Java <= 8. The article doesn't confirm or deny that staying on the latest version remains free.

Re: Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019

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Post by yetihehe » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 6:40 AM UTC

Oracle will charge for support of Java 8, not for all Java versions.

Re: Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019

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Post by theoctopus » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 6:41 AM UTC

sudhirj wrote: post #5

Isn't this heavily misleading? This still seems like the charges for continuing to use old versions of Java <= 8. The article doesn't confirm or deny that staying on the latest version remains free.

This is some _incredible_ clickbait. The latest JRE and JDK will continue to be free. What Oracle are charging for is continued Java 8 support.

Re: Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019

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Post by cwyers » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 6:41 AM UTC

> Oracle have announced that, “after January 2019”, Java SE 8 public updates will not be available for “business, commercial or production use” without a commercial license.

This is blogspam and FUD. Java SE 8 will be past EOL at that point. Oracle has announced no intent to charge for updates to Java SE 11, which should be the current release, at that point.

Re: Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019

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Post by DonHopkins » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 6:41 AM UTC

After all those years of endlessly arguing back and forth about which programming language is the best, the poor Java evangelists have had the blocks knocked out from underneath them, because now you can instantly counter any number of technical pro-Java arguments and win the argument in one word, by simply be saying the name "Oracle", and sadly shaking your head in pity.

Re: Oracle to charge for Java from Jan 2019

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 09, 2018, 6:41 AM UTC

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