Oracle, WTF are you doing?
I mean, I dislike Oracle business practices as much as the next guy, but even with their priorities in mind, I cannot fathom why this happens.
Imagine in you will, you are a Windows user who wants to download Java (for example, in order to run Kap, which requires Java 17 to be installed). What do you do? Probably search for "windows java download".
This is where you're sent: https://www.java.com/en/download/
Ah, the download page for Java, you may think.
The headline reads:Java Downloads for XX
Where XX is the operating system you are using.
Below that you can read:Recommended Version 8 Update 391
Java 8!? The one that was released in 2014 went out of free support back in 2019?
What... the actual...?
I now challenge you to find any link to newer versions. In fact, find any reference to the existence of other versions at all. None.
The actual download link is: https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/
Of course, while writing this I note that there is paid support until 2030. So perhaps there is a reason for this behaviour after all.
Elias Mårtenson /
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2023-12-29 06:15:11
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