[code_sloth]

This seems a slow death in the long term to me.

1. Customers that balk at this cost will switch to other cheaper/free vendors.

2. Oracle imposes even more onerous costs to maintain revenue.

and repeat.

At some point either Oracle gives up, or they attempt to extract revenue from vendors as well. The latter will probably result in a some kind of fork.

[JonChesterfield]

The customer base is very large companies who find having someone to sue reassuring and are likely to be institutionally incapable of running their own fork of java. Seems fine to me.

[xmcqdpt2]

Well there is also the fact that the openjdk codebase is huge and so even though it is quite well written and documented fixing a bug in the jdk (and especially a bug in hotspot) isn't easy. Although tbh i have no idea how the quality of support is with Oracle.