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So many companies have a vested interest in maintaining Java alive (Google, IBM, etc.) that I'm not too worried about maintenance of OpenJDK.

When did Red-Hat hired all Oracle developers working on OpenJDK?

They have quite a few developers working on OpenJDK

Yes they do, but the large majority are Oracle employees, which many seem to keep forgetting.

Oracle can easily stop or delay updates to OpenJDK if they want. Remember how things worked out for OpenSolaris?