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Oracle Reinstates Free Time Zone Updates For Java 7

Posted by timothy on from the mistakes-were-made dept.

twofishy writes "The internet has been buzzing this week with the news that Oracle has ceased to provide free time zone updates outside of the standard JDK release cycle. However, at the end of yesterday the firm appeared to have a change of heart. 'We never intended for a support contract to be required to keep JDK 7 up to date. TZUpdater was made unavailable on March 8 as part of the End of Public Updates for JDK 6, and as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again.'"

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  1. See? by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All you people who think Oracle is the embodiment of evil and Larry Ellison is the devil incarnate are... ...absolutely right.

  2. Updates by LizardKing · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We never intended for a support contract to be required to keep JDK 7 up to date

    Then provide bloody YUM and APT repos for easy upgrading on RedHat, CentOS and Debian based systems. Even Adobe can manage that for the poxy Flash plugin.

  3. ORACLE by intellitech · · Score: 4, Funny

    One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison.

    Lehk228 had it spot on. They tried to get away with it, and failed. Unfortunately, they usually get away with it.

    Fuck Oracle.

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    vos nescitis quicquam, nec cogitatis quia expedit nobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo et non tota gens pereat.
  4. Translation... by msauve · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again."

    Translation: we bought this thing, but we don't know how it works.

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    "National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
  5. Re:Just waiting by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    for the first anti-Java rant. Just waitin'....

    I have nothing against Java(though the sandbox they use to try to make the JVM safe enough to do web applets in is a total clusterfuck); but this doesn't exactly raise my confidence in Oracle's wise stewardship of the platform...

    "So, um, guys, we accidentally deprecated the tool that is required to keep timekeeping functions working properly in our latest JVM release, because we apparently didn't realize that it was still necessary and were just deprecating stuff related to release N-1 more or less at random! Sorry about that. We'll consider checking for interactions next time."

  6. backpedaling by j00r0m4nc3r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "'We never intended for a support contract to be required to keep JDK 7 up to date."

    Bullshit.