Snydeq writes "Two years later, Oracle's stewardship of Java continues to raise user and vendor ire, this time due to modularization, licensing, and protector concerns. 'Plans for version 8 of Java scaffold test Edition, which is due next year, call for composition of Project Jigsaw to add modular capabilities to Java. But some organizations are concerned with how Oracle's plans might contradictory with the OSGi module system already geared to Java. In the licensing arena, Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, says Oracle is no longer letting Linux distributors redistribute Oracle's own mercantile Java, causing difficulties for the company. Meanwhile, soundness vendor F-Secure views Java as protector hindrance.'"

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