Oracle Open Source Concerns

Oracle will never second Open Source, I assure you. They will defend themselves. Occasionally that may benefit you accidentally. If so, I would not bet on it continuing.

Oracle acquired Sun, so they could have solved it by just choose another license moving forward. One gotcha is the ZFS (Solaris core) team vehemently resisted anything GPL-compatible. Something like a BSD license would make the most commercial sense. Instead, Oracle has a consistent pattern of losing community goodwill that loses customer interest and pushes developers to fork.

Oracle has already pushed the Harmony and OpenOffice communities away through their greed. So I wouldn't be surprised if the same happens with Java.

Oracle is the OSS destroyer (see MySQL, Hudson, Java...)

Oracle has made several open source softwares closed source. Do not trust. At all.

It's open source, the community can always fork it and move forwards if they dislike what Oracle does with it.

Good for Oracle. There are (reasonable) concerns about their ownership of Java, but at least it's moving forward again.

Basically oracle is attempting a hostile takeover of java. I'm keeping everything I do openjdk8 to avoid potential legal action.

It seems Oracle is on a trend to kill everything open source they've acquired from Sun. Java seems to be the only one left, and it would've happened already if they won the trial with Google, but I'm sure they'll do something equally dumb in the future to kill finally Java, too.

> Now it's your turn, Oracle.That'll never happen. They're too busy trying to make the open source projects they inherited from Sun (MySQL, Java) closed source again.