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Oracle's Latest Java Moves Draw Industry Ire

snydeq writes "Two years later, Oracle's stewardship of Java continues to raise user and vendor ire, this time due to modularization, licensing, and security concerns. 'Plans for version 8 of Java Platform Standard Edition, which is due next year, call for inclusion of Project Jigsaw to add modular capabilities to Java. But some organizations are concerned with how Oracle's plans might conflict with the OSGi module system already geared to Java. In the licensing arena, Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, says Oracle is no longer letting Linux distributors redistribute Oracle's own commercial Java, causing difficulties for the company. Meanwhile, security vendor F-Secure views Java as security hindrance.'"

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  1. Re:Oracle and Java by Cro+Magnon · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Oracle had been in charge of COBOL, businesses would have used RPG.

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  2. Re:fp by jd2112 · · Score: 5, Funny

    FIRST POST

    Obviously you aren't running Java, otherwise you wouldn't have been able to post so fast.

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  3. Re:Oracle and Java by jd · · Score: 4, Funny

    The problem with HP is that they use high-power automatic weapons to shoot themselves in the foot that also take out everyone else's feet, the floor, part of the walls, some of the landscape and a perfectly innocent asteroid.

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