Because it is intimately associated with Oracle and they're a terrible company? .. I have personal experience with this (astounding) terribleness but will not share anything concerning it (in print) because they seem to have A LOT of semantical sentence parsing lawyers itching for someone to drag into a deposition. Seriously, I don't care if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, you should always avoid Java - otherwise you'll be dealing with (what I consider) a law firm masquerading as a tech company.
One doesn't have to rely on Oracle at all to use Java today, given the source code is GPL2 and there are many other companies shipping their own distributions of Java: Azul Systems, Red Hat, SAP, IBM, BellSoft, AdoptOpenJDK, and couple others.
It intrigues me how an open source language and runtime, because it is stewarded by Oracle, but with contributions from many other companies and individuals, would still scare people away.
Mind to share more insights about your perspective?
I know about OpenJDK and whatever but, like I said, have personal experiences with them as a corporate entity. Do you really understand how that licensing works (and are you SURE?) I'm POSITIVE I understand how their "professional services" operate and I'm also aware they're suing Google over a clean-room clone of a freakin API (and I assume they bought Sun for this exact reason). I will not go into details here (but over a drink, sure!) but for me it boils down to thing "Do I trust them" and the answer to that questions is an unequivocal NO
Because it is intimately associated with Oracle and they're a terrible company? .. I have personal experience with this (astounding) terribleness but will not share anything concerning it (in print) because they seem to have A LOT of semantical sentence parsing lawyers itching for someone to drag into a deposition. Seriously, I don't care if it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, you should always avoid Java - otherwise you'll be dealing with (what I consider) a law firm masquerading as a tech company.
One doesn't have to rely on Oracle at all to use Java today, given the source code is GPL2 and there are many other companies shipping their own distributions of Java: Azul Systems, Red Hat, SAP, IBM, BellSoft, AdoptOpenJDK, and couple others.
It intrigues me how an open source language and runtime, because it is stewarded by Oracle, but with contributions from many other companies and individuals, would still scare people away.
Mind to share more insights about your perspective?
I know about OpenJDK and whatever but, like I said, have personal experiences with them as a corporate entity. Do you really understand how that licensing works (and are you SURE?) I'm POSITIVE I understand how their "professional services" operate and I'm also aware they're suing Google over a clean-room clone of a freakin API (and I assume they bought Sun for this exact reason). I will not go into details here (but over a drink, sure!) but for me it boils down to thing "Do I trust them" and the answer to that questions is an unequivocal NO
Fair enough! :-)