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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by kbenson on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:01PM (#17248216)
It seems like Oracle has struck on a way to not just get the community to help with their maintenance and development, but a way to trick the community into doing all their work for them.

If I had to guess, I would bet that the license requires contributors to give up rights to their work so Oracle can still use it in proprietary products with little or no stipulations.

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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by gaius on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:42PM (#17249282)
There is a word for any engineer that subsequently contributes code to this project. We need some solidarity in this industry.
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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:39PM (#17248617)
Expertise in building profilers and debuggers is specialized and rare, I would think. It'll be difficult for the community to find people to fill the role of the Java Mission Control team.
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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by kjeetgill on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @01:34PM (#17249190)
I think that characterization is a little unfair. They could shut the team down and kept the source. Oracle draws a lot of hate reasonably but I'd like to see any closed project open sourced.
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Re:Oracle Lays Off Java Mission Control Team After Open-Sour... by kbenson on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:28PM (#17249701)
> I think that characterization is a little unfair.

In what way? It seems to me Oracle has a habit of pulling company resources for things they open source, wihle still retaining the ability to market it privately with their own enhancements and the enhancements from the open source community, with little given back.

Just look at Solaris. It's the same story, over and over again.

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