[dubbledidu]

The problem is that nobody trusts Oracle. Have a look at what happened to Google. Their code didn't even originate from Oracle and they still got sued for made-up, bullshit reasons.

It of course sucks for those who invested their time in hacking the Oracle stack, but I think many people these days outside the Oracle bubble see Oracle as a dead-end.

Most people don't have a war chest full of money to hire the best lawyers like Google to protect them against baseless lawsuits.

Anyway, even from a technical point of view, things like Graal and Truffle are terrible workarounds and I prefer just fixing the things which are broken in the first place. Seeing that this will never happen at Oracle, I'll just work on code were the maintainer/owners are not so openly hostile.

[pron]

But you see, this is exactly the wrong kind of conversation. You can't say "nobody trusts Oracle" while Oracle is bigger and more profitable than Google, and while the majority of important software worldwide is built on Oracle technology. Oracle won't pay attention to this kind of statement because it's obviously false. The truth is that most companies do trust Oracle.

What we can and should say is that Oracle is losing the trust of the Silicon Valley startup crows, and that this is a very important population segment. It's like a candidate being elected but gradually losing the young vote – it's a bad sign that Oracle would do well to consider.