I supported Oracle, even with all the MySQL stuff that was going around last year. I felt that Monte had sold his company and didn’t have any right to complain about what happened to it. I felt I had to keep the same attitude about Sun’s sale and Oracle’s stewardship of java. I was prepared for changes, but not prepared for one thing.

Oracle sued Google over java.

I’m not foolish enough to think that Oracle will ever bother suing me, but this act was absolute proof that they have no motivation other than short term monetary gain. There is no way in the world that they are going to spend money on helping developers when they can simply do a withdrawal at the Patent ATM machine. Serious development of java/javaFX as a platform is over in my opinion.

I am in the process of re-writing my core java applications in C#/Mono now. I don’t anticipate ever going back to java or javaFX, even for all the promise they have brought over the years.

While I’m really glad that there are people like you who still have so much optimism for the future, I’m afraid I can’t share in it. Even if you somehow manage to convince Oracle to “Open Source” javaFX, you can be sure it will be full of loopholes that will allow Oracle to sue anyone they don’t like. I really hope that one day I’ll have to say “You were right and I was wrong”, but I’m not going to hold my breath.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

morris