Finding God in a Dog

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You may recall a few days ago that Oracle started charging for TZUpdater. It now appears that they have had a change of heart. Quoting InfoQ:

“We never intended for a support contract to be required to keep JDK 7 up to date. TZUpdater was made unavailable on March 8 as part of the End of Public Updates for JDK 6, and as soon as we learned that this affected JDK 7 users we initiated the process of making it available for JDK 7 again.”

Whether Oracle never intended to charge for TZUpdater, or had a change of heart after all the bad publicity, one thing is for sure: Oracle has apparently learned their lessons about stepping on the toes of their users.

Of course, Slashdot has a discussion.