It seems like Oracle is trying to break up with all developer communities that supported and promoted their products for years. Here are some recent developments I’ve read about in the media:

  • OpenSolaris community breakup (forked to IllumOS)
  • Solaris losing e.g. Bryan Cantrill (Dtrace author), Mike Shapiro (ZFS), Jeff Bonwick (ZFS, slab allocator, LZJB)
  • Apache Foundation leaves the Java Community Process EC
  • Java also losing James Gosling (the father of the Java language), Simon Phipps and Chris Melissinos
  • OpenOffice (forking to LibreOffice, and many key contributors being forced to leave OpenOffice by ORACLE)
  • MySQL losing Brian Aker
  • … and many more

So what will they break next?

Will the next free JVM still have all the features, or will we have to abandon Java unless we pay for their premium JVM?

P.S. here is blog post about a still unfixed java security issue from 2008. As much as I have been using Java lately and like Eclipse, I’m not sure if I’d use Java for any new project, since it appears to be quite dead sometimes. Lots of unfixed bugs, key developers leaving, …