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This can’t be a sustainable business model - can it? I work at a very large company and all computers are regularly scanned for Oracle components and those are cleared/flagged.

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They've done it before with VirtualBox. If you grab the Vbox Addons pack from a corpo IP, Oracle will come swinging at you.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...

At last two companies, both had this Java Third Party Application that was pretty mission critical. Both of those companies put out support statements that they would only support Oracle JRE and no, they wouldn't be paying for licensing. So my companies ended up shelling out for JRE costs.

One of third party later changed their mind and said they would support Adoptium JRE but you had to be on latest version of software. Generally, upgrades required their consulting people to come in so cha-ching. Last I heard, we were on their calendar to come do the upgrade since upgrade cost was about a year of Oracle licensing fees.

I know what you mean when you say Adoptium but the java build is called Temurin

https://adoptium.net/en-GB/temurin/releases/

Got it. I don't do Java if I can help it so all information I got was sitting in meeting or being dragged into the project.

at this point Oracle is no different than ransomware

I suppose the unique thing is that with Oracle it's always a long con. Maybe call Oracle's type of malware a judicial APT?

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