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by jodastephen 4y ago
I wrote up an alternative proposal here: https://blog.joda.org/2022/10/fully-defined-entrypoints.html My concept is much more powerful by having a new kind of class declaration alongside 'record' and &#x
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by jodastephen 8y ago
The main author was Martijn Verburg, first listed in the signatures. I was involved in writing it too along with other Java Champions.
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by jodastephen 8y ago
Security patches will be available for Java 11 via Red Hat, IBM and others (who have promised to do so). And the binaries will be built and made available here https://adoptopenjdk.net/ as well as via other OpenJDK build fa
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by jodastephen 8y ago
If you want to claim that 2000+ word terms are not legalese then so be it. Suffice it to say, I disagree. What is needed here is a summary in the warning box on the main page. Something like "Do not download this unless you want to pay
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by jodastephen 8y ago
Not everybody reads warnings. Many will go to that page and just go straight to the download. In addition, the warning doesn't say "not for commercial use" - you have to click through and read a long legalese to find it. Orac
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by jodastephen 8y ago
Maybe. But they have also provided a $free alternative. This is solely a battle of getting Java users weened off Oracle JDK and onto an OpenJDK build.
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by jodastephen 8y ago
Yes, I definitely don't own an island!
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by jodastephen 15y ago
I've also copied it to my blog, in case the new gist disappears: http://blog.joda.org/2011/11/real-life-scala-feedback-from-y...