Ugh. That seems like a really, really silly name change.
Going from something obvious, to something that has no immediate relationship to java, jdk, or anything related. :/
I guess people will have to learn to remember it over time.
Going from something obvious, to something that has no immediate relationship to java, jdk, or anything related. :/
I guess people will have to learn to remember it over time.
Even though Adoptium has some big names backing it, they aren't big contributors to Java. This is relevant because it implies they get access to not-yet-publicly-diclosed vulnerabilities and the corresponding patches later than other projects. Rather, one should try to use a distribution by one of the major contributors, for example Red Hat or SAP.
Since I cannot currently provide the source and I cannot personally verify this either, take this with a grain of salt.
When they became an Eclipse project, the Eclipse Foundation was concerned that "AdoptOpenJDK" might lead to trademark problems with Oracle, given that "OpenJDK" is an Oracle trademark. Absent explicit permission from Oracle to use a name incorporating "OpenJDK" (which has not been received), Eclipse said the name had to change.