Oracle shooting them selfs in the head. The open unrestricted competition in Java world moved that
comunity since the begining and everybody got profit from that. The tools were improved and preselected
by the user experience only. It was a win win. If your product was not good enough you got the valuable
information: that you should to improve yourself. That is the basic foundation of capitalism: don't concentrate
on your competitors but on your own products. Now Oracle is trying to block that open market of ideas.
They will be the first to get hurt.
“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.” (Ayn Rand)
Some time ago I was working two years for small corproration called IBM. Employes from small startups
being aqcuired by IBM was shoked by the amount of time they started to spend on email after joined the corporation, the best of them left very shortly after the aqcuasition.