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Is anyone else's reaction to the situation: "Oracle is dispensable"?

• hga 16y ago
  Well, not any time soon (the Java/JVM ecosystem is too big, too rich). But in the long term, at the moment I agree with this observation in the article which captures the most relevant and important issue for me: Forrester Research analyst John Rymer agrees [ this will have a chilling effect on developers ]: "I think this lawsuit casts the die on Java’s future," he said. "It will become a slow-evolving legacy technology. Oracle’s lawsuit links deep innovation in Java with license fees, and that will kill deep innovation in Java by anyone outside Oracle or startups hoping to sell out to Oracle. Software innovation just doesn’t do well in the kind of environment Oracle just created." "Deep innovation" in e.g. JVM GC for functional languages (Clojure) is exactly the sort of thing I'm interested in ... and that's now at best on hold while I get a better grasp of this mess and its implications. But the real scope of the implications probably won't become clear for years and I'm certainly not going to wait that long.