On: Oracle to buy Sun

[bpyne]

Wouldn't this give Oracle ownership of the JVM? I'm a little more concerned about their ownership of it than the Java language itself.

[jaaron → bpyne]

It gives them the key vote in the JCP which means they own not only the copyright to the JVM code, but also the rights for the Java specification.

There's been some arguments in the JCP about Java 7, with Sun usually the last hold out. So this move is likely to resolve many issues within the JCP.

Or at least we can hope.

[nailer → bpyne]

They'd own the copyrights and trademarks, yes. JDK 1.7 is however OSS.