At first I want to cite myself:
Sun have given with OpenOffice.org the OpenSource-community a lot.
But with Java, it looks a little bit diffrent.
And the reason is, that Java _is_ already popular. So they see no need to make it more popular.
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The idea behind it is clear: Letting a platform closed source or commercial (Java by Sun, Windows/.net by Microsoft) and give products which run on this platform away for free or OpenSource, to make the platform more public.
For this here is a new article: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/05/16/1358227&from=rss
It seems, that now Sun want to bring more and more parts of OOo2 to the Java-platform.
Greatings theuserbl
