Re: Is Oracle really serious about Java?
Java is already open source so conceivably it could fork whenever it felt like. But Oracle hold the copyrights and probably certain patents so it'd have to be renamed as something else. It's not the first opensource that has walked from Oracle stewardship. Hudson became Jenkins, MySQL became MariaDB and of course OpenOffice became LibreOffice.
Of course companies that use Java tend to be highly conservative and even if it was forked it doesn't mean it would succeed. They'd probably stick with what they had for the support, certification and so on. It's probably that conservatism which explains the slow pace of Java development in the first place.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
