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5 months ago

Oracle is a law firm with a large IT department.

They’ve been giving us shit because they “see downloads from our IP addresses”. It’s an absolute shake-down operation. They let anybody download their poisoned jvm for free and then tell your company that they now owe them a fortune.

thesporkeffect@lemmy.world

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5 months ago

It’s time for corporate IT to block that download

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5 months ago

We’d love to but we do have some legitimate needs for it since Oracle software requires their jvm. It’s a massive pain in the ass.

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0^2@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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5 months ago

Openjdk: https://openjdk.org/

Or for people that use jre or want installers: https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html

We just went through all of this and we just switched to openjdk without issues.

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1 point

5 months ago

You didn’t seem to understand. Oracle only supports their own jvm when running their software that uses Java (e.g. weblogic).

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Abnorc@lemm.ee

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5 months ago

I know it may not be an easy question to answer, but does your company really owe them money? I’m guessing that their other software that uses their JVM also has a license, so they should be more clear about the company having to license out the JVM in order to use it. This sounds like a scam that comes packaged along with some other software.

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5 months ago

Oh - sorry, Oracle offers a free “entitlement” to use the JVM when used with their software if it’s required. We don’t pay extra for the Oracle JVM.

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