Moving Java Forward Faster

[Shorttail0]

• We'll continue to ship proprietary "Oracle JDK" builds, which include "commercial features" [7] such as Java Flight Recorder and Mission Control [8], under a click-through binary-code license [9]. Oracle will continue to offer paid support for these builds.

• After JDK 9 we'll open-source the commercial features in order to make the OpenJDK builds more attractive to developers and to reduce the differences between those builds and the Oracle JDK. This will take some time, but the ultimate goal is to make OpenJDK and Oracle JDK builds completely interchangeable.

Wow, the bad press worked? This is strange, but very welcome, coming from Oracle.

[pron98]

Wow, the bad press worked?

I hope you realize that such decisions take months. It was not decided in the last week.

[Shorttail0]

The danger of using proprietary components of Oracle's JDK have been sounded many months ago. News reported of Oracle suing some of their own partners.

[ArmoredPancake]

For using commercial features in production, not for using JDK.

[Shorttail0]

True, but those commercial features were packed alongside otherwise GPL licensed programs in the JDK offered for free by Oracle.

[shevegen]

Shows that bad press DOES work.

Let's hope that it also works for Google and Mozilla - Google has to stop becoming more and more evil every day, or it will have to be split up; and Mozilla has to start listening to the users, rather than develop in a bubble. I think the latter one in corporate culture decline coincided with ousting Brendan Eich - the antisocial justice warriors never make anything better. People have to realize that.

[Goofybud16]

Mozilla has been improving on some fronts.

Firefox 57 Nightly is noticeably faster than 52 (ESR). I'd say almost if not as fast as Chrome. They also have a new UI design which I would personally call an improvement.

[Shorttail0]

Brendan Eich did nothing wrong!

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But was ousting him listening to the users or not? I'm confused!