Agreed, with the caveat that what has been messed up is the clarity rather than the stability. AFAIK, there are plenty of options for freely-available, unencumb

Agreed, with the caveat that what has been messed up is the clarity rather than the stability. AFAIK, there are plenty of options for freely-available, unencumbered, high-quality, reliable runtimes, and have been since Oracle got involved. It's just that it's been a headache to work out that this is true, and what you should use. I think the situation is much better now than it was. The daft renaming of AdoptOpenJDK is the only recent low point.