As for opening Java, I ended up writing this article for JavaLobby on the topic after I made this post:
http://java.dzone.com/news/suns-open-source-java-right-ar

There were a lot of noisy answers but one in general, that actually resonated what you said, was by John Franey that pointed out something similar… saying that there are actually safe-guards built into the community (like the TCK, GCJ test suite… Muad or something? I forgot the name, and also all the apps that are out there… like NetBeans, Eclipse, etc.) that implicitly define what “Java” is and will force any implementation into a compatible arena.

I’m still a little concerned about what a big commercial entity might try and do with Java, especially when they own their own implementation of it… *but* I do feel better about it in the long run after reading a lot of that feedback from the readers. It will help expand/define the language in a more broad sense.

but as a developer myself i wouldn’t be too worried.

when am coding for java am doing so for “Sun Java” not IcedTea.

They have such different names for a reason.

it’s like what happened to #C and C++

But the main culprit is Sun, they decided to open it up, but not open it the “right way”…

Both of them are big companies, so am sure they’ll resolve their differences soon enough.

just take the recent example of Mobile linux uniting to avoid fragmentation also:

http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/06/26/Mobile_Linux_groups_join_forces_1.html

i think that news made all of us happy

it’s a big win i believe, what you think Riyad?

ps. My old pc broke and i lost all my feeds lol

it’s good to be back , i have to get updated on your blog(s)