> great way to ensure that a language will have long-term support If anything, community-driven projects can keep on track longer: Linux, Python, non-commercia

> great way to ensure that a language will have long-term support If anything, community-driven projects can keep on track longer: Linux, Python, non-commercial distributions, while corporate-driven one can change direction or be dropped: Java, Visual Basic, MySQL, Solaris, a lot of Google projects. It's much more difficult to steer a whole community in wrong direction or convince most contributors to drop a project.