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[-] carrylex@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 weeks ago

I thought the main reason was that they changed the license

[-] jve@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

That might be true but there’s OpenJDK so they still don’t have that as much of an excuse

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