Mathieu Baudier wrote:
I do believe that with Java now GPL, Linux+Java can be a great platform. But there are years of parallel development paths and, if I can put it that way, mutual distrust, that need to be overcome. So it is still a bit painful (but much much better than a few years ago!).
I have the feeling that Red Hat is supporting Java on the long term, e.g. with their ownership of JBoss, and their contributions to OpenJdk/IcedTea (for example the very interesting work of Gary Benson on alternative architectures such as PPC, see [2]).
Given that it could have been trivial to include Sun Java ages ago, or at least not intentionally break the jpackage installation methods, I think Red Hat has done more damage to java than any other company and don't see that turning around even if they try at this late date.