[t0mas88]

This is a lot of FUD around Java with no substance at all. If you're afraid of the platform owners being in your way you should go with Java and not with Microsoft.

The JDK is under the same GPL 2.0 license as Linux, which is a rock solid way to ensure nobody can ever make it less open source. Several big players are contributing to Java and due to it being GPL licensed everything is open source.

For the .NET ecosystem it's still 99% Microsoft with virtually no others contributing. And it's only MIT licensed so anybody picking it up in the future can do so without contributing back to open source.