Okay, so here's the Java Mess as I think it currently stands.
Okay, so here's the Java Mess as I think it currently stands. Oracle has, for the third time, figured out that "open source" generally means "people will use this product without giving us money", so they're moving further development to a non-free fork for enterprise customers (see also, MySQL, StarOffice). If you want to keep using the free JDK and/or JRE, you can use the last OpenJDK that Oracle released, or you can pick someone else's fork, or you can create your own.
And since Amazon's pretty heavily invested in Java for their AWS stuff, they've stated that they're gonna be maintaining their own fork, and it'll be (a) always free and (b) maintained. And they're packaging it with nice installers for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Just installed it and it works just fine. It doesn't try to install any other conveniences or hidden auto-updaters or any nonsense like that.
https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
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