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No. Most likely Azure customers are asking for a supported JDK from Microsoft since MS customers tend to be very uh... insular.

There's never been any question about the JDK/JVM license. There are tons of different ones that are all compiled from OpenJDK sources and offered for free (Amazon Correto, Azul Zulu) or licensed out with commercial support (Azul Zing).

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Hi all, Engineering Manager for Java at Microsoft here - I can confirm this is the case, the two announcements were completely unrelated.

Just because there are others that have gotten away with having their own JDK & not faced Oracles lawyers doesn't mean they weren't one day going to have to litigate it out.

The precedent matters.

I'm again willing to accept coincidence here, but doubt will be eternal.

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