The winner writes history. As I remember it could be described much simpler - 'we found a way how to monetize open source OS and powerful friends to promote us

The winner writes history. As I remember it could be described much simpler - 'we found a way how to monetize open source OS and powerful friends to promote us (read: IBM) and arrange our IPO (big money)'. Some might think after reading this article that Java was really open source at that time. It wasn't until 2007, when everyone realized that the hype started to decline. And it wasn't a part of RHEL/CentOS until 2008.