[Info-vax] Mostly off-topic: licensing methods

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/28/2023 2:18 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/28/2023 10:36 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-01-27, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> PS: I predict that OpenJDK will become very popular with large
>>>       corporations!
> 
>> PS: As for OpenJDK, Oracle _must_ have thought of that, so I wonder
>> how they are going to counter that approach by large corporations ?
> 
> That process has been underway for some time. Now I suspect
> that it will accelerate due to companies with a large number
> of employees and a modest Java usage jumping.
> 
> The only real difference between OpenJDK and paying
> Oracle is that Oracle offers sustaining support
> after 8 years. Some companies are willing to pay
> something for that. But there are obvious limits
> on how much they are willing to pay.

For OpenJDK there are so many places to
look:

Oracle (!) original builds:
   https://jdk.java.net/19/ + https://jdk.java.net/archive/

IBM "Semeru" builds:
   https://developer.ibm.com/languages/java/semeru-runtimes/downloads/

Redhat (also IBM!) builds:
   https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/download

Microsoft builds:
   https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/java/openjdk/download

Eclipse "Adoptium" / "Temurin" builds:
   https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/

Amazon "Coretto" builds:
   https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

SAP "SapMachine" builds:
   https://sap.github.io/SapMachine/

Azul "Zulu" builds:
   https://www.azul.com/downloads/?package=jdk

JetBrains builds:
   https://github.com/JetBrains/JetBrainsRuntime/releases

Heck if somebody want chinese then:

Alibaba "Dragonwell" builds:
   https://dragonwell-jdk.io/#/index

TenCent "Kona" builds:
   https://github.com/Tencent/TencentKona-8/releases + 
https://github.com/Tencent/TencentKona-11/releases

Arne