Tom Davies wrote:
OpenJDK is also owned by Oracle. (it shocked me when i found that out too! lol)
It tends to be a lot less likely to run into problems because the strong
community involved seems to take the edge off it a lot but ultimately it is
still owned by Oracle. Many such community run but owned projects have broken
free of Oracle over the past couple of years but if OpenJdk did that then they
would have problems maintaining their position of being a drop-in replacement
for the proprietary version.
Is it owned by Oracle? Or do they just contribute to it? Other
companies, such as IBM and Apple also contribute. Also, from what I've
been reading, this is a problem with using Java with browsers. Linux
uses something called "IcedTea" to replace Oracle components that are
not open source. Might the difference in their avoid the problem?
Also, as for a drop in replacement, it only has to function as the
original, that is same APIs etc. It does not mean the same source
code. So, if the problem is with the way Oracle's version was
implemented, that may mean other versions do not have the same problem.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openjdk>
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