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Oracle Java police start knocking on Fortune 200's doors for first time (www.theregister.com)
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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 38 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] decivex@yiffit.net 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

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