What worries me is that Red Hat and IBM are handing Oracle the perfect excuse to close up Java on a silver platter.
Java 9 is very late in development, it's scheduled for release in a month, and it would have already been released by now if Oracle hadn't held it back for additional polish. For Red Hat and IBM to pull this now is a violation of the JCP's spirit, and it makes the entire Java Community Process look bad. It's 100% in bad faith, and it's a huge black eye for the JCP.
I wouldn't be surprised one iota if Oracle uses this as an excuse to pull the plug on the JCP and declares that Java will solely be an Oracle product from now on developed solely by Oracle employees without any third-party contributions. Maybe they'll even use the death of the JCP to pull the plug on OpenJDK and make Java 100% proprietary again.
Honestly, if Oracle does kill the JCP, I'd be fine with that. I'm just afraid for the future of OpenJDK.
Java 9 is very late in development, it's scheduled for release in a month, and it would have already been released by now if Oracle hadn't held it back for additional polish. For Red Hat and IBM to pull this now is a violation of the JCP's spirit, and it makes the entire Java Community Process look bad. It's 100% in bad faith, and it's a huge black eye for the JCP.
I wouldn't be surprised one iota if Oracle uses this as an excuse to pull the plug on the JCP and declares that Java will solely be an Oracle product from now on developed solely by Oracle employees without any third-party contributions. Maybe they'll even use the death of the JCP to pull the plug on OpenJDK and make Java 100% proprietary again.
Honestly, if Oracle does kill the JCP, I'd be fine with that. I'm just afraid for the future of OpenJDK.