This announcement is pretty interesting news:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6131788.html

I think it’s a pretty good idea in several ways. Open Source Java has always struggled a bit with the fact that since the Sun implementation is ‘free as in free beer’, there is less incentive to work on an open source version.

I said as much a year ago so it’s nice to see my idea wasn’t so bad after all.