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minus-squarecarrylex@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up70·1 year agoIn short: Money Long story: Legacy The really long story: They added a bunch of stuff in that version and it’s the last LTS before they removed a bunch of other stuff and a lot of companies are just too lazy to update their 10 year old crappy software. The end.
minus-squareAnafabula@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up19·1 year agoI thought the main reason was that they changed the license
minus-squarejve@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoThat might be true but there’s OpenJDK so they still don’t have that as much of an excuse
In short: Money
Long story: Legacy
The really long story: They added a bunch of stuff in that version and it’s the last LTS before they removed a bunch of other stuff and a lot of companies are just too lazy to update their 10 year old crappy software.
The end.
I thought the main reason was that they changed the license
That might be true but there’s OpenJDK so they still don’t have that as much of an excuse