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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
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| Date | 2018-06-27 12:24 -0700 |
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| Message-ID | <696cfc2e-c998-4cc7-99fa-f680f2c5baef@googlegroups.com> (permalink) |
| Subject | Re: No more free JRE - Java is dead? |
| From | Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> |
On Wednesday, June 27, 2018 at 2:08:12 PM UTC-4, Marcel Mueller wrote: > I mentioned this risk a few years ago when Oracle bought Sun. The Java > fan-boys at the conference were not amused and called me a fool. ;-) > > But AFAIK this applies only to some non-free addons that ship with JRE. > As long as you avoid to use this features it is still free, or did I > miss something? > ok, it would kill the language if they get rid of the free use model. I'd like to see the link of what exactly they want to charge for. > > Therefore it would be better don't use Java in any FOSS. > > I think it depends. OpenJDK exists. > > But the Java rules require any existing Java implementation to be > certified by Oracle. If they change the certification rules they can > easily kick any free implementation if they want. > There is a lot of FOSS out there, so again I think it would kill the language if they tried to charge for anything already written that has been free to use. > > The old gold C++ is more secure. > > For CLI software, fine. But you don't want to write a portable GUI in > C++. And it is more complex to learn the language. > Is C++ platform independent? C# is free to use and write as long as you own a copy of Windows, so that's pretty popular if you don't need platform independence. The new GUI is all about Javascript/Node/Angular languages all free stuff afaik.
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No more free JRE - Java is dead? slawek <x.y@org.org> - 2018-06-27 09:29 +0200
Re: No more free JRE - Java is dead? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-06-27 12:00 +0000
Re: No more free JRE - Java is dead? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-06-27 08:24 -0700
Re: No more free JRE - Java is dead? Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> - 2018-06-27 20:07 +0200
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Re: No more free JRE - Java is dead? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-06-27 13:35 -0700
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