Comment by jburwell

One of the primary drivers for JDK support is security. As far as I can tell, Oracle remains the only member of the OpenJDK community participating in the vulnerability pre-disclosure process. They are also not releasing source for JDKs after 6 months. Therefore, users of non-Oracle supported JDKs will be exposed to a zero day attack between the time of Oracle's CVE disclosure/patch release and the time that their OpenJDK distribution creates, tests, and releases a patch. I would love to see these communities thrive, but the reality is that Oracle is strangling them in the crib by taking control of the most important support functions.