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So, potentially you could make an argument that the open source thing is just screwing up all the revenue models and we aren't getting the advertising, because it isn't the best technology that always wins, it's who advertises more ... And in fact Bill Gates may be sitting up there laughing his butt off because the open source community is cutting the legs out from under all the R&D and promotion efforts of all the open interface strategies -- not open implementation, but open interface strategies. Scott McNealy, Interview excerpt in Open Enterprise Trends via Sam Ruby and Ugo Cei.  There is also a Server Side thread on this topic.   

Just what we need: inferior techology and more advertising. Thanks Scott. Open source Java  developers are not going to be goose-stepping along with the suits in Sun's and BEA's marketing department. Get used to it, open source is not going away - in fact it may be Java's only hope.