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Out of 6 languages recommended by the NSA, 4 are patended bvy multibillion comanies who can pull the plug on them at any time (and Oracle already tried that).

C# - PATENTED by Microsoft,
Go - PATENTED by Google
Java - PATENTED by Oracle, NOT FREE
Python - not too shabby
Rust - not too shabby
Swift - PATENTED by Apple

People who are saying that these patented languages are open soruce or ISO standardised, have never heard of H.264.

H.264 is both open source and an ISO standard and you'll still get slapped with fees if you try to peddle your own encoder, even if you wrote it from scratch.

Or are you saying "These corporations would never do this to us!" because oh boy, do I have a bridge to sell you!

Robin

@sos C# patents can be used freely in open projects. Hence why Mono was allowed to exist, and even commercialize their own C# implementation (they sold it to Unity among others).

Java is a different story. They argued copyright when Google copied their API and lost that case.

@Robin_Van_Ee Well, what stops them from changing "Covered Specifications" and "Convered Implementation"?

@sos Having this kind of stuff in writing would make that very difficult.
Of course they can make any future versions closed source but the same can be said of any FOSS project, and the community is explicitly allowed to fork at least the current version.