I'm just an individual, freelancer/consultant, I don't have the resources to build / test / host JavaFX myself. I've done what I can to contribute with free open source projects for JavaFX (see: https://pixelduke.com/projects/ for a list of some, not all of my free open source JavaFX projects). I try to contribute with what I think I can do best. I only do this because of my passion for the technology. I'm not gaining anything with it, in fact I haven't had any javafx client projects in about an year. I've recently only done web development.
But enough about myself. I was kinda skeptical when Oracle "dropped" JavaFX. Anyway, I thought it was going to become a community effort. My vision was various players companies or individuals contributing towards the common goal of evolving JavaFX, No individual company would stand out has the owner of JavaFX. It would be community owned and the various players could support themselves by selling their own JavaFX products or consultancy services. This would only work if no one company or individual stands out has the JavaFX owner, ripping all the benefits out of the contributions of the other players. I'm in a hurry right now. Don't have time to write something more pondered. I don't want to offend anyone, and I'm sorry if this sounds too harsh but that's how I'm perceiving things to be right now and in the future. If some non profit would take up the task of building and providing JavaFX that would be the best solution. Or some entity that could be funded by all the other players. I'm not perfectly acquainted with AdoptOpenJDK. Not sure if this is how they work. As things stand out right now, it's not appealing. It's not something that would motivate me into contributing my free time. I think probably others might think like this. Will maybe just fork javafx and make their own distributions. Or just go and try out a different technology. Or maybe I'm just wrong. Thanks, -- Pedro Duque Vieira - https://www.pixelduke.com
