Not to diminish your point about Oracle's handling of their inherited codebase (too much). I kindof agree... But, it bears mentioning that Ruby and Python aren

Not to diminish your point about Oracle's handling of their inherited codebase (too much). I kindof agree... But, it bears mentioning that Ruby and Python aren't a mainstream part of browsers. And Flash (under Adobe) has actually done some pretty impressive stuff recently with regard to sandboxing.