Forking Java, not a good idea at the moment

He goes on and on about how to do a successful fork, but doesn't explain why this doesn't apply to Java, or why 'the moment' isn't a good time for a fork.

I suspect he is trying to say that there isn't a giant, perfect council ready to lead Java into freedom.

Well, there never will be, unless someone creates it. There's no reason why it couldn't be created right now.

Anyone is free to create an independent Java fork... well at least as long as Oracle doesn't sue. For this reason I find Java to be a highly unreliable technology in legal terms.