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by hocuspocus 1969 days ago
In recent Java versions, there's roughly 20% of external contributions:

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/the-arrival-of-...

Oracle seems to pursue GraalVM EE as a way to monetize Java. It would be insane for them to change the license, piss off companies with deep pockets, risk a hard fork and see most employees working on the JDK leave.
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coldtea 1969 days ago
>In recent Java versions, there's roughly 20% of external contributions:

Have to check your link to find out, but is it by number or by impact?

(Asking cause many projects have seemingly many "external contributors" but if one looks almost all real work happens by a core team, and the external contributors just do some change here and there, or even clerical work, like fixing comments and documentation and such).

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rpdillon 1969 days ago
The post measures by issue count, though not all issues are equal.

> Of the 2,136 JIRA issues marked as fixed in Java 15, 1,702 were completed by people working for Oracle, while 434 were contributed by individual developers and developers working for other organizations.

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