Subj : Re: Java
To   : Chai
From : Jagossel
Date : Fri Nov 16 2018 11:10:00

Chai, to Nightfox...

 > I'm wondering if this will affect Android app developers (since Android apps
 > typically use Java) - though Android doesn't use the standard Java runtime..

 Ch> From what I understand, it only affects the Oracle Java SDK.  All of
 Ch> the other SDK providers are unaffected.  So, depending on what variant
 Ch> Google is using, I'm guessing this will have little impact on them.

 Ch> Amazon even has a Java SDK, which I did not know.  I'm learning,
 Ch> slowly.

Having to look into this a little bit myself, I am not too worried about 
it. To me, it just looks like Oracle JRE SE will just have a different 
pricing model to it, and Oracle is just jumping onto that "subscription 
pricing model" bandwagon that Adobe and Microsoft Office has adopted.

So, it seems like Oracle JRE SE will continue to be free for personal use; 
Oracle is now offering a different way to have a commercial license paid 
for (moving from a one-time payment to a per-user, per-month); and OpenJDK 
will continue to be free (both libre and gratis), if not, there will 
probably be a fork of OpenJDK that will be (like CentOS from RHEL).

Still though, this just doesn't seem like a good business practice for the 
comsumers of Oracle JRE SE. It just comes across, to me, that Oracle is 
trying to collect some form of "royality fees".

We'll see how this will turn out.

-jag
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