> Oracle never fails to show off how evil they are.
Oracle actually is what techies used to think Microsoft was. Fortunately for all of us, they never managed to escape their niche.
While there is some truth to it,they did more research for Java than Sun ever did, and no one else cared to buy Sun.
That's, sadly, true. At the time of acquisition, Sun was only a shadow of its former glory...
It all started circling the drain when they merged SunOS with System V.
Solaris: So bad I left the company.
They still did a ton of cool stuff after that. It was under Jonathan Schwartz that the lack of direction and the overwhelming confusion became painfully obvious, not knowing whether it was a software company trying to profit from and compete against free (as in beer) software, a hardware company narrowing its own niche at the very top or... something totally different.
I kept a couple Type 7 keyboards.
They did research not because they want to support Java community, but because they want to make gains from making it proprietary.
Then why is their research open source? GraalVM is on github.
To entice people to license the full version of GraalVM, which isn't open source.