Yeah, you are right. What Google did was more like replacing the JRE with their own version. Whereas the OpenJDK has a different license and is for a different purpose even though it contains what's in the JRE. It is still interesting though that MS mentions backported fixes if it's not going to be the same environment on client devices... I guess build-only fixes. I must admit I am not as familiar with the JVM as with .NET.
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But about the topic basically Microsoft have their own build of OpenJDK I guess so they can provide Azure instances with MS JDK where the support and upgrades are completely end to end triggered by them and not depending on third party OpenJDK builds I believe this is the whole idea.
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Yeah, you are right. What Google did was more like replacing the JRE with their own version. Whereas the OpenJDK has a different license and is for a different purpose even though it contains what's in the JRE. It is still interesting though that MS mentions backported fixes if it's not going to be the same environment on client devices... I guess build-only fixes. I must admit I am not as familiar with the JVM as with .NET.
JDK = .NET
JRE/JVM = .NET Runtime
now you are familiar :D
But about the topic basically Microsoft have their own build of OpenJDK I guess so they can provide Azure instances with MS JDK where the support and upgrades are completely end to end triggered by them and not depending on third party OpenJDK builds I believe this is the whole idea.