westonkenny

I believe PHP is developed by the PHP group. It is under the PHP License which I believe is an open source license. My question is whether it is plausible if PHP could be bought by some corporation ( or if the PHP group could be bought by some corporation), and whether that could be mean the corporation could start charging for PHP. On November 13, 2006, Sun released much of Java as free and open source software, (FOSS), under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). I'm asking because ever since Oracle bought of Sun, it would likely mean that future versions of Java and MySQL might be proprietary. It's kind of a sad day for open source Java community when Oracle bought Sun. Should I Avoid using Java because Oracle might starting charging for Java in the future? I Hate Paying for software technology so I try to stick to open source. However, open source technologies might Not be open source in the future. ???Is there less of risk of being charged for technologies in the future if I AVoid using open source technology created by a single corporation ( i.e Oracle ) or a single person ( i.e Jean-Philippe Lang who is officially listed as the sole Developer of Redmine project management software ) ???? Would there be more of chance of my bills being lower if I used open source technologies that are developed by consortium groups or software foundations ( ie Ubuntu Software foundation, Mozilla foundation ) ?