For a long time, Sun has believed that their business interests (selling hardware) are served by making software free (or as cheap as possible). Being aware of

For a long time, Sun has believed that their business interests (selling hardware) are served by making software free (or as cheap as possible). Being aware of that "business interest" provides a lot of context to this post (which seems to criticize software vendors for the fact that their products aren't free or that their product-upgrades may not be free). While Sun's business interest often masquerades as love for the consumer or for the open-source ideology, this post does deserve some credit for an acknowledgment that free services generally means a business model where you charge consumers for support, services, "other software", hardware etc.