Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time

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.

It feels like actual innovation in all sectors has slowed to a crawl, and corporations – especially the ones run by MBA parasites – are concentrating more and more on just squeezing money out of people with various bullshit tactics, while at the same time thinning their workforce (naturally the MBAs are never under threat, though)

Lol brb gonna share this with the CFO and watch them go into a panic. Going to bet they'll freak out and by the end of 2024, no more Java for us.

This is the golden ticket I've been waiting for.

Oracle quoted us 30K because a small handful of our users needed to use a .jnlp application a couple times per year. It took me a couple of days but I got it working with Corretto and a program called OpenWebStart.

One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

Oracle was one of the first companies on my personal shit-list. I feel validated.

This is how Oracle finally kills Java. I stopped working with Java many years ago and firmly believe that no developer should tie themselves to this fuckery. Find a new job before it's too late.

Way to push Fortune 200 companies towards Azul, Adoptium, Correto and other alternative Java distributions, Oracle!

Is anyone else in this thread surprised people weren't using OpenJDK this whole time?

But industry experts have pointed out that businesses with limited Java use would have to license the software per employee under the latest model

Yikes.

STOP USING JAVA

Why would anyone recommend their company to use Oracle stuff these days? Oracle should give kickbacks to people that recommend to use Oracle Database, Java, or VirtualBox in their company so they'll keep at it /s

auditors gonna make absolute bank from bribes

We got the notice 2 months ago, I played dumb asking for their proof and they sent a 5 hits detected from ips we owned. Which was a joke.

https://openjdk.org/ for pre built binaries or for installers and jre, use: https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html

I like Java but Oracle are pricks. Thank god for OpenJDK

Oracle is a law firm disguised as a tech company

Corpos nagging corpos? I'll get the popcorn.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Oracle has started to dispatch Java audit letters to Fortune 200 companies for the first time, according to one licensing expert.

But industry experts have pointed out that businesses with limited Java use would have to license the software per employee under the latest model, a dramatic shift from the one previously offered by Oracle.

But that has changed in recent months, according to Craig Guarente, founder and CEO of Palisade Compliance, an independent Oracle licensing advisory company.

Guarente was speaking on a webinar hosted by Azul, which helps organizations move away from Oracle Java to open source alternatives.

In February 2023, Gartner warned that Oracle "actively targets organizations" on Java compliance following the introduction of new contractual terms for the code.

In July last year, The Register revealed Oracle was sending unsolicited emails to businesses offering to discuss Java subscription deals, seemingly in an effort to extract information that could be to its benefit in future license negotiations.

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Kill it before it gestates

Private Domicile and I will not be harassed!

Can Oracle kill javascript as well, please? Please?

People are still using Java?

The memory hog JVM and Dalvik on Android both need to go tbh.

Even if you can use OpenJDK or Kotlin as an upgrade, Go has shown a much better system with selective memory control which is easy to implement.

Or Rust if you want all the performance.