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.

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StopDisinfo910 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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lenkite 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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

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mike_hearn a day ago | parent [-]

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.

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lenkite 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

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

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samus 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	mike_hearn 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft aren't the creators of C++.