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by rndgermandude 1668 days ago
Maybe, maybe not. Google was already heavily invested in java with Android. And lots of other places were too. If Oracle hadn't bought it, Google or one of the others might have bought java specifically from Sun. Or may have just let java die and be reborn as an "open source foundation" as they are en vogue now (which to some degree happened anyway, with the proliferation of the OpenJDK).
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OpenJDK is developed 90% by Oracle employees, others just take it from there, there is no proliferation .