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Re:Java 25 Officially Released by mike_hearn on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @04:38AM (#45273356)
That's because none of Java's competitors have commercial support offerings to begin with, as far as I know?

It's the same situation as with Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux isn't free. But it'd be weird if you said you're afraid of using Linux because the licensing is too complicated.

Re:Java 25 Officially Released by lenkite on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @09:47AM (#45275797)
Lots of languages like Python, NodeJS, C++, even Perl have commercial support offerings.
Re:Java 25 Officially Released by mike_hearn on Thursday September 18, 2025 @02:57AM (#45286408)
OK but not from the creators of the languages themselves, I think?

The point remains though that it's the same situation. There's a free open source implementation and some companies that offer paid support.

Re:Java 25 Officially Released by samus on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:18AM (#45289340)
Pretty sure you can get support from Microsoft or other vendors for their C++ compilers.
Re:Java 25 Officially Released by mike_hearn on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:49AM (#45291156)
Microsoft aren't the creators of C++.
Re:Java 25 Officially Released by lenkite on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:46PM (#45294113)
Dotnet has commercial support from Microsoft. They are C# inventors.

(Also to needlessly quibble, technically James Gosling under Sun Micro-systems invented Java)

Re:Java 25 Officially Released by StopDisinfo910 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @10:00AM (#45289812)
Cloud providers do if you run your program on their platforms. That’s not exactly what you want but that covers a significant part of the market.