Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

That's because none of Java's competitors have commercial support offerings to begin with, as far as I know?

It's the same situation as with Linux. Red Hat Enterprise Linux isn't free. But it'd be weird if you said you're afraid of using Linux because the licensing is too complicated.



Cloud providers do if you run your program on their platforms. That’s not exactly what you want but that covers a significant part of the market.


Lots of languages like Python, NodeJS, C++, even Perl have commercial support offerings.


OK but not from the creators of the languages themselves, I think?

The point remains though that it's the same situation. There's a free open source implementation and some companies that offer paid support.


Dotnet has commercial support from Microsoft. They are C# inventors.

(Also to needlessly quibble, technically James Gosling under Sun Micro-systems invented Java)


Pretty sure you can get support from Microsoft or other vendors for their C++ compilers.


Microsoft aren't the creators of C++.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: