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Apparently people keep forgetting who pays the majority of OpenJDK developers.

Or people simply want to avoid installing the proprietary software that is bundled with Oracle JDK. With the added benefit of running the same JDK on your dev machine and on your servers.

Which leads to the interesting situation that not all Java GUI applications run properly in GNU/Linux with OpenJDK, forcing companies like JetBrains to bundle their own fork for those not willing to install Oracle JVM or another third party vendor.

Because actually OpenJDK isn't 100% 1:1 to the closed source versions.

Font rendering is ugly on linux with both Oracle JDK and unpatched OpenJDK, or at least that was the case last time I tried to solve this issue manually.

If the OpenJDK developers would provide official builds of it, I could accept the argument.

So what do you think it would happen if Oracle just made OpenJDK offline, withdraw its developers or even nastier changes to OpenJDK (left to imagination)?

Which of those listed companies would try to keep OpenJDK alive and drive the JEPs?

> Which of those listed companies would try to keep OpenJDK alive and drive the JEPs?

The question should rather be: Which of those listed companies will Oracle sue for doing so?

There are many examples of projects maintained by a cooperative effort between multiple corporations.

Yet none of those companies cared enough for Java to save Sun, why would they do it then?

You can care as much as you want: If you don't have the money to save them, you will be of no use.

Which means most likely they will just look elsewhere.

RedHat is now supporting .NET, IBM made J9 modular for other languages like PHP, Ruby and Python, additionally improving Swift on GNU/Linux.

And who is that? IBM?

Oracle of course, so they can do whatever they feel like to OpenJDK.

I actually doubt, that given the interest other companies have shown regarding saving Sun assets, anyone would bother to pick up OpenJDK afterwards.

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