Java 25: Oracle is Cool Again

14 pointsposted 5 months ago
by mooreds

5 Comments

synack

5 months ago

I don't trust Oracle to not sue me whenever they feel like it. I refuse to work on any Java codebase as long as Oracle has anything to do with it.

__natty__

5 months ago

Isn’t OpenJDK or other open source sdk enough to not worry about Oracle? Genuine question.

synack

5 months ago

> OpenJDK (the "Name") is a trademark of Oracle America, Inc. ("Oracle") (the "Trademark Owner").

https://openjdk.org/legal/openjdk-trademark-notice.html

Not worth the risk of stepping on their toes. There are plenty of other good programming languages to choose from.

nitwit005

5 months ago

The trademark only matters if you publish the trademarked term somewhere.

If you bake a cake, it probably contains a dozen ingredients that have trademarked names. You aren't in any legal risk from doing so.