This one just popped out in Reader, Google Relaunches Instantiations Developer Tools - Now Available for Free. I dont write Java and generally dont like it, so its not my thing actually.

But my point here is Google buys many companies and we often can be benefited from those. For example, FeedBurners Pro version, Picasa, Jaiku¹ source code (The website still working? I thought its dead), and more.

Now, take a look at Oracle. OpenSolaris is discontinued as a good example, you might want to check OpenIndiana, we are lucky that OpenSolaris is an open source project. Or something like this file converter² used to be free. And MySQL, nothing really happening to it (yet), but it has more negative voices than when Sun bought MySQL.

It might not be about money, it could be anything. Freedom, openness

Even though I dont like Java, I wouldnt like to see someday Java being suffered; or see OpenOffice.org going to dark future.

[1]	https://jaiku.appspot.com/ is gone.

[2]	https://shop.oracle.com/pls/ostore/f?p=ostore:product:3819509770667178 is gone.