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This is surely no mistake on Oracle's part.

Remember, this is the same company that for years grossly knowingly overcharged the US government for licenses, resulting in hundreds of millions later paid in fines.

Their focus is pure bottom line. If that means cheating, so be it. If it means the equivalent of a bait and switch, sure why not.

It's really a shame that circumstances are what they are now. Sun may have had warts, but in comparison it was highly admirable.



Maybe. But they have also provided a $free alternative. This is solely a battle of getting Java users weened off Oracle JDK and onto an OpenJDK build.




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