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AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees (www.jpost.com)
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[–] Mikina@programming.dev 47 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

JDK is the greatest scam ever.

When something needs JDK, most people usually just download the first one they find without much thought, just like with any dependency, which is Oracle's, instead of OpenJDK.

Oracle will go after companies where their employees unknowlingly installed their JDK for some minor thing, and hit them with multimillion fine for breaking their license after a while. Or at least I remember hearing they used to.

Blocking anything Oracle company-wide, especially JDK, is the first thing an IT admin should do.