[jjm]

The spirit of the desire for a robust yet useable module system i believe is at odds between Oracle and the community. A middle approach while seemingly sensible is less attractive to the community. What works for core modules may not work for the (regardless of what some may call design flaws) more complex and more important community modules.

The community made Java what it is today. This system is supposed to support the community more so. You could say that the problems were created.

Without the community Oracle would not have the resources to sustain Java.

[pjmlp]

Without Oracle there wouldn't be any community, who do you think pays the salaries of most OpenJDK devs?!

[winteriscoming]

Don't know about "most" OpenJDK devs, but Red Hat is heavily invested in OpenJDK and has an entire team of employees working in it.

[pjmlp]

Yet they aren't the ones putting money on Hotspot, Graal, G1, AOT compilation, SubstrateVM, JNI replacement, ....

The only core VM technology has been Shenandoah GC (which isn't production ready yet)and the Zero Assembly port.

Most of the Red Hat money goes on Java frameworks like JBoss or RichFaces (now dead).