Most of the technical decisions that led to the incoherence the article is talking about were made from 1995-2005, when Java was still very much under Sun's con

Most of the technical decisions that led to the incoherence the article is talking about were made from 1995-2005, when Java was still very much under Sun's control. It's also telling that Java is still very much in use despite being owned by Oracle for the last decade. Would C# have much usage at all if Microsoft went bankrupt?