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> The actual people doing OpenJDK development and research of new features are mostly on Oracle's pay check, regardless of which company is doing maintenance.
by sangnoir 8y ago
> The actual people doing OpenJDK development and research of new features are mostly on Oracle's pay check, regardless of which company is doing maintenance.
That's only because Oracle hollowed-out the JCP (Java Community Process) and reduced its function to rubber-stamping Oracle-developed tech. Java was the crown-jewel they paid for - they had the right to do what they wanted with it; but to be clear - it wasn't the community/other companies slacking, Oracle chose to do R&D of Java internally because they wanted to control the roadmap.
- pjmlp 8y agoOracle has been part of Java community since 1997, presented quite a few Java related ideas alongside Sun and IBM like the NC, had their own JVM, was the first RDMS vendor to support Java as stored procedure language, is active addiding AOT support, a 3rd party feature only, considered tabu at Sun with JIT über Alles as the only true way, and JEP process is much more open to 3rd parties than JSRs ever were under Sun's management. There is plenty of Red-Hat, Amazon, Alibaba, ARM, Intel tech on OpenJDK, which doesn't hide the fact that the large majority of OpenJDK developers are Oracle's employees. Haters are going to hate, no matter what.