There are Windows and MacOS builds of the OpenJDK alongside the Linux one
at http://jdk.java.net/10/. What am I missing that makes for a dire
situation on Windows?

Tim

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 5:20 AM Jiri Daněk <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:36 AM Vadhiraj <[email protected]
> >
> wrote:
>
> > As per below link JAVA will b e licensed starting from 2019.   Will
> > ActiveMQ
> > remove  dependancy on JAVA or ACtivemq will buy license for JAVA or
> > ActiveMQ
> > user should buy license
> >
> > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html
>
>
> Oracle is not the only Java vendor in the world. Java is bigger than one
> company and even if Oracle disappeared tomorrow, there will be demand and
> supply of Java maintenance releases from the other vendors.
>
> OpenJDK is free and will be free. That means that Linux users will not be
> affected (distribution maintainers will build OpenJDK packages and ship
> them in the distro). For example, CentOS/RHEL will offer LTS support for
> OpenJDK, on par with what we saw with JDK 6/8, on the order of 6 years
> after initial release.
>
> On Windows and MacOS, unless you can/want to depend on personal-use
> OracleJDK, the situation is somewhat more dire. I am personally hoping that
> the Red Hat Windows build of OpenJDK
> https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/download/ may become freely
> available (without the development-only condition, without support) and
> fill the space. Then there is https://adoptopenjdk.net build, and
> https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu/. Not sure about IBM Java, what the
> terms and conditions are there.
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards
> Jiri Daněk
>

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