[mike_hearn]

That's because none of Java's competitors have commercial support offerings to begin with, as far as I know?

It's the same situation as with Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux isn't free. But it'd be weird if you said you're afraid of using Linux because the licensing is too complicated.

[StopDisinfo910]

Cloud providers do if you run your program on their platforms. That’s not exactly what you want but that covers a significant part of the market.

[lenkite]

Lots of languages like Python, NodeJS, C++, even Perl have commercial support offerings.

[mike_hearn]

OK but not from the creators of the languages themselves, I think?

The point remains though that it's the same situation. There's a free open source implementation and some companies that offer paid support.

[lenkite]

Dotnet has commercial support from Microsoft. They are C# inventors.

(Also to needlessly quibble, technically James Gosling under Sun Micro-systems invented Java)

[samus]

Pretty sure you can get support from Microsoft or other vendors for their C++ compilers.

[mike_hearn]

Microsoft aren't the creators of C++.