Nemeski@lemm.ee to Programming@programming.dev · 27 days agoOracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first timewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1263arrow-down12
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minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up96arrow-down1·27 days agoOracle 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.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·17 days agoWhat’s hilarious is that the AdoptOpenJDK project (now called Adoptium) managed to create a better UI than Oracle ever had for downloads.
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.
What’s hilarious is that the AdoptOpenJDK project (now called Adoptium) managed to create a better UI than Oracle ever had for downloads.