I see it like you. The switch to OpenJDK was needed so that the Platform could be on par with other Java8 Improvements. Also GPL Code means that you aren't for

I see it like you. The switch to OpenJDK was needed so that the Platform could be on par with other Java8 Improvements. Also GPL Code means that you aren't forced to use the vendors versions. Google could fork it easily if Oracle does dumb things. The move to OpenJDK was needed and the article is clearly wrong about the winner. Especially the loser sections. Heck i've never seen proprietary changes to Dalvik / Harmony based on Android. And there definitely weren't. Most optimizations are kernel optimizations and other stuff and when I look how "fast" vendors will publish the kernel after an update... > The entire middle part of the Android stack will be subject to proprietary Oracle control That statement is so wrong. Especially in the GPL sense.