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Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe, the community can take it back. It's unfortunate that it won't have a strong internal identity though.

so oracle's purchase of mysql was the best thing that happened for postgress. does this mean that go/c# might be postgress of programming languages ?

Wouldn't the "Postgress (sic) of programming languages" need to be something sponsored by an independent organization?

Doesn't C# (Microsoft) and Go (Google) have the same risk that Java did? Or are the license differences enough to differentiate them?

Java – planned obsolescence?