> The odds are much higher that your project will not be successful and so the choice of technology doesn't really matter.

I'm very well aware of that. I wouldn't recommend anyone to give such what-if scenarios much weight in their technology choice without tangible concerns. Yet, Java is one of the few technologies where I find myself thinking about its legalese at all, so I wondered if others had the same thought.

I guess it's because there's now a good bunch of new programming languages that start to compete on Java's grounds and don't have such PR disasters like the Google-Oracle lawsuit.

To be fair: most of the technical reasons for me choosing Java are based on improvements that came to Java under Oracle's ownership.