Java will remain free?

Is there any way for me to know that the J2SDK will remain free and available for download and development?
Java is a great languaje, and i hope it will remain free but i'm afraid that SUN all of the sudden decides to charge for java. Like what Red Hat did with it's 9.0+ distributions. At first Red Hat was free for download and use, and then they just decided to forget about the GNU and charge for Red Hat Linux!.
Can anyone tell me if SUN has an agreement with the community where they guaratee that java will always be free. Like Debian's Social Contract???
Thanks.

No one can ever guarantee that anything will be free
for ever. But it's very hard to for a company to get
developers to pay for a programming language. It's
much easier to charge for development tools, licensing
of technologies etc.
/Kajthat will be news to the likes of Borland, Symantec (no more), Intel and others who for years now have sold compilers (as well as the associated tools, documentation and libraries).
The prevalence of free compilers does indeed make it harder, but people and companies are still willing to pay for quality.
For example Intel's compilers sell because they yield exceptional performance, Borland for added value of the supplied libraries and editors.
Selling just the JDK as it now stands would probably not be a good move (for revenue) as users would just stick with the last free version but bundle it with a world class IDE and documentation beyond what comes with the JDK now (I'm so happy we can use that acronym again without feeling slightly guilty) and it might well sell.

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