Pretty much a non-story, it seems like. Clickbait imho. Search ‘The Register’ in this wikipedia page <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Potentially_unreliable_sources#News_media>
@Ben Manes Agreed, OpenJDK and Oracle JDK are now pretty close, but there is still some differences in the VM code and third party dependencies like security libraries. Maybe that’s fine for some productions, but maybe not for everyone. Also another thing, while OpenJDK source is available to all, I don’t think all OpenJDK builds have been certified with the TCK. For example the Zulu OpenJDK is, as Azul have access to the TCK and certifies <https://www.azul.com/products/zulu/> the builds. Another example OpenJDK build installed on RHEL is certified <https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013>. Canonical probably is running TCK comliance tests as well on thei OpenJDK 8 since they are listed on the signatories <http://openjdk.java.net/groups/conformance/JckAccess/jck-access.html> but not sure as I couldn’t find evidence on this; on this signatories list again there’s an individual – Emmanuel Bourg – who is related to Debian <https://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2015/01/msg00015.html> (linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebourg>), but not sure again the TCK is passed for each build. Bad OpenJDK intermediary builds, i.e without TCK compliance tests, is a reality <https://github.com/docker-library/openjdk/commit/00a9c5c080f2a5fd1510bc0716db7afe06cbd017> . While the situation has enhanced over the past months I’ll still double check before using any OpenJDK builds. -- Brice On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Voytek Jarnot <voytek.jar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reading that article the only conclusion I can reach (unless I'm > misreading) is that all the stuff that was never free is still not free - > the change is that Oracle may actually be interested in the fact that some > are using non-free products for free. > > Pretty much a non-story, it seems like. > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:55 PM, Kant Kodali <k...@peernova.com> wrote: > >> Looking at this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_ >> java_users_non_compliance/?mt=1481919461669 I don't know why Cassandra >> recommends Oracle JVM? >> >> JVM is a great piece of software but I would like to stay away from >> Oracle as much as possible. Oracle is just horrible the way they are >> dealing with Java in General. >> >> >> >
