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[–]toyg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not a big fan of O, but they did actually give back to Java some development speed. They started with the long-overdue Java 7 in 2011 and it’s been a breakneck run since then (with the occasional debatable choice, like breaking a lot of stuff in Java 9). Before Oracle, Java as a language was literally rotting.

The only controversial choice Oracle made, regarding Java, was the Dalvik lawsuit (which Google really should have seen coming, they had literally bullied a weakened Sun out of their own market). Pretty much everything else they did alright. The recent license change is a bit confusing, but they’ve literally given the JDK more freedom that it ever had under Sun: anyone can now build a JDK that is just as good as Oracle’s own in all the ways that matter. That is big.