Maybe you are saying this is an improvement over the old days, in that the corporations now at least accept open source contributions, even if they are slow at doing it. I think the contention is that corporations are not merely slow at handling open source contributions, but in fact they are a drain on those contributors time and goodwill because they are incompetent. The end result is that some contributors give up and go elsewhere, and corporate-backed projects lose trust over time.

It might have been better if Oracle just said "we don't have the bandwidth to handle open source and we don't want to waste your time, please submit your patches to this other fork and we will merge when we get around to it."