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jcranmer on Sept 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What's the worst Oracle can do to OpenJDK?

Why would Mozilla take on OpenJDK? Mozilla's mission is about the web, and Java is no longer a major part of the web.

khitchdee on Sept 4, 2017 | [–]

In terms of scope OpenJDK would be comparable to Mozilla's mission. So even if Mozilla didn't grow to take it on, a similar sized org could. The point being open source specific Mozilla pattern orgs rather than private corps.

pjmlp on Sept 4, 2017 | [–]

The majority of the web servers where performance matters, run on top of .NET and Java.

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