My take on the Java situation is:
Oracle stopped developing OpenOffice when they found out it was freeware.
About the time I found out this I seem to remember reading an article that
Oracle had gone through the courts because they wanted to charge for the
use of Java. They lost, but were preparing to find another legal loophole
so they could charge for Java. I may be wrong about this, but now I have
the impression that Oracle wants nothing to do with anything that they
cannot make money from.
In the case of OpenOffice, they dropped it on Apache’s doorstep and walked
away. If they cannot find a way to make money from Java they will probably
cease development on that as well. They may even pass Java over to Apache.
If they can find a way to charge for Java (maybe change the licensing for
Java 8) then they will do that. I think the latter is the most likely
scenario.
Either way, I have been expecting Java to be abandoned by the programming
community and an alternate virtual machine created or a switch to some
other existing software.
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