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Oracle has already pushed the Harmony and OpenOffice communities away through their greed. So I wouldn't be surprised if the same happens with Java.

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People that actually use Java know that what Sun/Oracle do is to a large part irrelevant. Likewise for Harmony.

OpenJDK is the default for Linux and soon to be OSX and most development projects are still targeting Java 6. The innovation happening on the Java platform is not going to come from Oracle.

.... the core openjdk team are sun^H^H^H oracle engineers like John Rose, Jon the collector, Printezis etc etc, Oracle still have a very strong hand in it

Java 6... from 2006? I'm sorry, but innovation and Java do not belong in the same sentence. All of the innovation has moved on to dynamically typed languages, because it grew tired of having its balls fondled by JVM/TSA. Public Static Void Main? No thanks.

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