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I would assume universities had clever enough people to use OpenJDK distributions instead of Oracle Java installers.

It is like complaining they are paying for Visual Studio and Apple XCode developer licenses (Apple tax, anual membership, whatever you feel like calling it), instead of using plain GCC or clang.

But hey, lets hate Oracle for the universities broken decision making process.

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I think it’s ok to tsk at both parties. The universities should’ve known better, and Oracle shouldn’t have gone after them even if they’re technically allowed to. I mean, I know the latter is like getting mad at a dog for eating a steak laying on the floor. That’s just what they do. But still.

You have Java software, you need Java, you say “Download Java”, first link is on Java.com which owned by Oracle. When you open the link there’s zero mention of potential million fees for using it.

Oracle is doing scummy business here, just acknowledge it.

I would expect universities to have a skill level beyond that basic knowledge of street level people that equate the English Java word with coffee beans.

Virtually none of current mainstream languages, except Java, have this issue.

Have you ever bothered to read Visual Studio Community or C# DevKit EULA and if it applies to your businesses scenario?

It is like law enforcement, ignorance is not an excuse in court.

Remember when installing Java would install malware too? White smoke I think it was called

I imagine if they had a preinstalled OpenJDK policy, they'd be stuck on a horribly out of date version.

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