Sad, but true: if you release your #Java library with JDK 7 as baseline, you’re effectively saying: I don’t care about enterprise customers…
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@olivergierke You could argue you actually care if you do so, because you’re increasing the incentive to upgrade

May 8, 2014 · 7:43 AM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov Interesting aspect. I was more referring to the one’s that cannot upgrade to a newer version for whatever reasons.
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@stilkov @olivergierke In my experience developers don’t need an incentive to upgrade their JDK; it’s just that ops can’t/won’t do so.
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@stilkov I would say, this more of caring for enterprise _developers_, who have have other needs than the customers ops… @olivergierke