[macspoofing]

I made no statement about who contributed to Java and how much. So what does that have to do with anything?

Are you actually making the argument that had Oracle not bought Sun that Java, one of the most widely used commercial programming language then and now, would have .. what? Gone away? Disappeared?

[pjmlp]

Definitely, as proven by the high performance JIT and GC implementation available for Ruby and Python by the community.