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Posted by delduca 14 hours ago

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK(app.dealroom.co)
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herodoturtle 14 hours ago|
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Ozzie-D 6 hours ago||
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throwaway613746 13 hours ago||
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rootnod3 14 hours ago||
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nicman23 57 minutes ago||
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dist-epoch 14 hours ago||
Oracle is not a software company, but a litigation company. It will be hard to sue people because LLMs generated code similar to some code copyrighted by Oracle if they themselves use LLMs internally to generate code.
dan_q 14 hours ago||
ORACLE???
27183 14 hours ago||
What happens to OpenJDK when Oracle dies? That's looking increasingly likely on a 3-5yr horizon.
saghm 14 hours ago||
Probably it would get picked up by someone else (e.g. the Linux Foundation)? It's GPLv2-licensed, so it's not like the code is going to be risky for someone to fork
theandrewbailey 13 hours ago||
I would expect it to be picked up by the Eclipse Foundation. They already have the Java Ent- I mean, Jakarta Enterprise Edition.
tombert 14 hours ago|||
I don't think Oracle will die, but even entertaining the hypothetical I suspect that some other organization (e.g. Apache) would pick up and maintain a fork.
sandeepkd 14 hours ago|||
Way too much rides on Java, pretty much every big business has their own customized version of JDK that they support and maintain
cesarb 13 hours ago|||
The same that happened when Sun died: it gets bought by someone else.
ImJamal 14 hours ago||
IBM, Red Hat, Microsoft, SAP, Amazon and others all work on the JDK. They would have to step it up to cover the loss of Oracle's contributions, but I am sure they could manage.

Regardless, your timeframe on Oracle's death seems way too soon.

CamperBob2 13 hours ago||
Hilarious thing is, if I want a JDK, I'll ask Fable to write one, get Sol to review it and write tests for it, and it will be working by Monday morning. No need to get permission or anything else from Oracle. Building a complex product from many smaller, individually-testable components is exactly what LLMs are good at, and a Java SDK certainly qualifies.

And if I run out of tokens, well, that's OK too. K3 running on my own box will finish the job. I'll just have to wait another week, that's all.

ninglor 13 hours ago||
If I want a JDK, I'll ask my package manager to download and install one, and it will be working a minute later. Why would you want to wait another week for something that already exists?
CamperBob2 13 hours ago||
Excellent point. Why, indeed.
zaphar 13 hours ago||
Please do this. I would love to see this timeline actually hold true. Production quality is the bar though. Not something that only works in a very narrow set of circumstances with a ton of caveats.
redgarden 11 hours ago|
BREAKING Oracle pretends to be technical as we enter a new era where managers and corporate slobs larp as geniuses