[Translation] Splitting the JVM into the paid / free version: hysteria starting on Twitter

    In continuation of the topic, Oracle intends to divide the JVM into a paid / free version of

    pelegri, the editor of the famous blog about Java and its ilk - The Aquarium , who wrote about the hysteria that began after the announcement of the representative of Oracle regarding the Premium version of JVM.

    My free translation with the necessary links below.



    This is the story of one tweet ...

    Last week, Adam at QCon in San Francisco presented the report“ The Road Ahead for Java ”on the further development of Java SE. The PR part of the report was:

    Oracle JDK and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) will be available for free download; no changes to the licensing scheme are provided.

    Paid services: JRockit Mission Control, JRockit Real Time, Java for Business and Enterprise Support will continue to be provided for a fee.

    I don’t even know what specific words Adam used, but Michael Nygard posted the following tweet:

    “Our intention is to provide the Premium version of JDK” - this was said about the open source JDK. #qconsf

    Nothing, just a tweet. Maybe that’s what Adam said. The problem is not this, but what happened later.

    This tweet was re-tweeted so many times that at some point they lost a part about open source, leaving a part about the paid version, and they didn’t add any more gags. All this fell into the hands of reporters who spread the “news” on news sites, blogs and twitter. In general, everything happened very quickly: Michael tweeted on Saturday the 6th, and yesterday, after googling five minutes on Google News, I found the following sensational stories:

    November 6, Oracle cooks up free and premium JVMs
    November 7, Oracle vuole monetizzare Java ... Sai che novità!
    November 8, Daily Dose - Oracle to Sell “Premium” JVM
    November 8, Oracle: Novos Planos para Java Virtual Machine
    November 8, Oracle: ora spunta l'idea di una JVM a pagamento
    November 8, L'ultima mossa di Oracle: la Java Virtual Machine a pagamento
    November 8, Oracle: ci saranno due Java Virtual Machine, una sarà a pagamento
    November 8, Oracle wil met gratis en betaalde JVM-uitvoeringen komen
    November 8, Oracle prépare une JVM «Premium» payante
    November 9, the Oracle will release a paid and a free version of Java
    on November 10, the Oracle the to Offer the Free and paid 'Premium' versions of the JVM

    Plus topics on DZone forums, SlashDot, The Server Side. Plus mailing lists.

    All this "grew" out of one tweet, "verified" by "journalists."

    Some of ours spent a lot of time on the weekend to convey the right information to the people. Yesterday, Henryk (apparently Henrik Stahl) published a post about Oracle’s intentions regarding the JVM, Dalibor used it to write his Extra post ! Extra! Oracle Premium JVM! Read all about it! . But it’s much easier to spread misinformation than to correct it. Take a look at the news list above and tell me how many good news are there.

    Morality? For me, there are two of them:

    1) Journalists (bloggers, tweeters) should always remember the words Graeme Philipson (@robilad):
    “Journalists must be careful in the current online age of constant misinformation”

    2) Readers should read the news with skepticism.

    Of course, it sounds like mother's instructions, but it is never superfluous to recall again.

    Before we return to the topic topics, I recall a similar hysteria regarding InnoDB and MySQL. Comments are redundant - read Get The Facts: MySQL Licensing and Pricing .

    PS. I don't blame Michael for anything, everything was ok with his tweet.
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