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Java was created by Sun. Oracle bought them mainly to sue Google.

Kotlin from jetbrains is where developer mindshare is today ;)

But Kotlin does run on Oracle's JVM, no?

Runs on OpenJDK as well...

That's Oracle's too.

But it's open source. GPL. And it's not just Oracle that contributes to Java... (OpenJDK and Java Community, Red Hat, Azul Systems, IBM, Apple Inc, SAP SE)... We've had Amazon and AdoptOpenJDK compile and distribute their own binaries as well. We could fork it if we had to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK

Really? In what way does it differ from Oracle Java SE ?

In that it is GPL+Link Exception licensed. The copyright still belongs to Oracle. See this[0] example:

> This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only

[0] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/file/tip/src/share/...

Since Java 11 only in commercial support model. Code bits are about same.

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