Simon Phipps gives a comprehensive guide to the many recent posts on freedom 0:
http://www.webmink.net/minkblog.htm
Was the Blackdown Java for Linux open source?
And why are users trapped by having to use THE professional?
And if you provide reasonable quality free(beer) software on all platforms, software which has a compliance suite why would there be an open source version? If Sun radical ly changes the Java license (and it is legal) an open source version will happen (unless a better language platform comes along )