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Google screwed Sun and had their opportunity to buy it.

The Java ecosystem has dozens of JVM implementations. None of them have ever had a problem with either Sun or Oracle.

Only Microsoft with their J++, and Google with their actions fragmenting the ecosystem for Java developers.

Microsoft learned their lesson and are now a OpenJDK contributor.

Time will come for Google as well.

Switching to Kotlin doesn't remove the dependency on the Java world, unless they plan to rewrite everything in Kotlin/Native.