malamis wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/

If you want to roll out Java SE in a big deployment, as you would following development of your app, then you’ll need Microsoft Windows Installer Enterprise JRE Installer – and that’s not part of the free Java SE.

“People aren’t aware,” Guarente told The Reg. “They think Java is free - because it’s open source so you can use it. It’s not that the contracts are unclear; there’s a basic misunderstanding."

I'd imagine there are n>1 Java goofs floating around here making money off applications. If for some howling reason you're using Java as the foundation of your web service, be vewy vewy careful as you may in fact owe Oracle all the money.

I, personally, am laughing my ass off here, having I Told You So'd my bosses some 5 years ago, and getting to do it again now

 whembly wrote:

 malamis wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_users_non_compliance/

If you want to roll out Java SE in a big deployment, as you would following development of your app, then you’ll need Microsoft Windows Installer Enterprise JRE Installer – and that’s not part of the free Java SE.

“People aren’t aware,” Guarente told The Reg. “They think Java is free - because it’s open source so you can use it. It’s not that the contracts are unclear; there’s a basic misunderstanding."

I'd imagine there are n>1 Java goofs floating around here making money off applications. If for some howling reason you're using Java as the foundation of your web service, be vewy vewy careful as you may in fact owe Oracle all the money.

I, personally, am laughing my ass off here, having I Told You So'd my bosses some 5 years ago, and getting to do it again now

Java just wont die.

For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone major-money making enterprise would continue to use java. Especially since, there's a threat of code-stealing as it's really easy to reverse-engineer the compiled app to readable code.