They definitely messed up quite a few times. They had a lot of internal management that was down-right hostile towards open source. Not everything was rosy with

They definitely messed up quite a few times. They had a lot of internal management that was down-right hostile towards open source. Not everything was rosy with Sun either though; there was immense gnawing of teeth from the community, mainly stoked by Stallman and a personal vendetta over emacs of all things. I agree with your sentiment though. Nothing is perfect, but I do appreciate what they've been doing with GraalVM, new JEPs, and advancing the language (other than the var keyword ;)