> Looks like it's time for the open source model to prove its stripes.
Errr... it already has, over the last 10 to 20 years. That doesn't mean that projects don't go through ups and downs though, and Sun has, as of late, been contributing to stuff like JRuby. It won't die if they pull the plug on the paid developers, but it might be a setback for the project.
It's probably true that projects like JRuby/Jython/Scala/etc won't die (especially Jython what with BEA and all); I'm more concerned about things like invokedynamic and friends from JSR-292.
Hopefully Oracle will be friendly to Sun's research-like teams that may not be making direct contributions to the bottom line.
Errr... it already has, over the last 10 to 20 years. That doesn't mean that projects don't go through ups and downs though, and Sun has, as of late, been contributing to stuff like JRuby. It won't die if they pull the plug on the paid developers, but it might be a setback for the project.