Interesting to see how programming languages and environments change ownership through third-party acquisitions and slowly move in the hands of the big corporations. Oracle became the owner of Java through their acquisition of Sun Microsystems ten years ago. Now Microsoft has become the effective owner of the largest JavaScript repository in the world. Other languages and environments like Go, Swift, Objective-C, C#, and dot-Net had their roots in the corporate world.
Luckily there are still widely used environments that either predate the current corporations like C/C++, or that are driven by a healthy community like Python and PHP. Facebook tried to set its footprint on PHP with HipHop but that initiative didn't gain much traction.
