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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But industry experts have pointed out that businesses with limited Java use would have to license the software per employee under the latest model

Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fairly sure that in that case it would actually be more cost effective to just rewrite the application.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

In most cases they could probably switch to OpenJDK without losing anything whatsoever.