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I saw an offhand comment that Oracle's Java acquisition was a monkey's-paw wish to have someone step in to evolve the language and fix all the SDK bugs and I th

I saw an offhand comment that Oracle's Java acquisition was a monkey's-paw wish to have someone step in to evolve the language and fix all the SDK bugs and I think that was a pretty good comparison. There's an alternate universe where Google bought out either Sun or just Java, and then probably abandoned the commercial part of it entirely within a few years, leaving nothing but OpenSDK and a steering committee.

ec109685 4y ago
A bunch of the original Java engineers went to Google, so they had enough say that they didn’t need to buy it.
kaba0 4y ago
You do realize that Oracle was literally the company that open sourced the whole OpenJDK to the point that the only difference between Oracle’s version and the free open-source reference implementation (95+% developed by Oracle employees) is just some a tiny bit of branding? Also, with respect to Google’s inability to continuously support any project for more than like 4 years, no, Oracle is a much better steward of the platform.