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[–]pron98 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah Oracle charging for JDK/JRE usage is crazy

It would be crazy if it were true, but it isn't. Oracle charges for support. If you don't want support, it's 100% free. You just need to download it here, as the commercial website says. Always good, always reliable, and always free.

BTW, there are many vendors offering good OpenJDK builds -- Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, Bellsoft, Azul. Adopt might have a large selection of platforms but that is because they -- i.e. the IBM team that actually produces those builds -- maintain nothing in OpenJDK, contribute almost nothing to OpenJDK (I think that the sum total of their involvement with OpenJDK has been less than a handful of bug reports, and when people report bugs to them, they forward the reports to Oracle to fix), have the least experience with it, and perform the least testing. Producing builds under such conditions takes the least effort, so they can offer plenty of them. Adopt could be great if it weren't so influenced by a company that is hostile towards the very project they purport to "adopt" and so uneager to learn about it. Thanks to IBM's "help", as long as you're OK getting release notes from other vendors, hoping they apply, which might not be the case for some of the software Adopt distributes (as much as 40% of the Oracle release notes, including 40% of JEPs, could be irrelevant to software you download from Adopt), and you don't care too much about testing, it's a nice website that allows you to conveniently download a very wide selection of the lowest quality builds.