What you're implying is that the JVM is a proprietary platform. I think most people have treated the JVM as an open platform all these years (or they trusted Su

What you're implying is that the JVM is a proprietary platform. I think most people have treated the JVM as an open platform all these years (or they trusted Sun to effectively treat it as such), and I bet many of them wouldn't have used it if they'd thought it was a proprietary platform where the only allowed implementations have to be approved by Oracle. You seem to be implying that it's no big deal if it is proprietary. I disagree.