So, potentially you could make an argument that the open source thing is just screwing up all the revenue models and we aren't getting the advertising, because it isn't the best technology that always wins, it's who advertises more. You could make a very strong argument that says, "No that's messing with it." And in fact Bill Gates may be sitting up there laughing his butt off because the open source community is cutting the legs out from under all the R&D and promotion efforts of all the open interface strategies -- not open implementation, but open interface strategies.Sun's McNealy Questions Open Source's Value to Java Industry [via Sam Ruby]

Personally, I've been questioning Scott McNealy's value to the Java Industry for some time now. Were it not for the developers jumping on Java and implementing great things, Sun would already be chapter 11. I'm sorry that you can't figure out how to make money off of other people's work, Scott. If there isn't much usable software coming from $100K programmers, there's precious little useful anything coming from those making millions, IMO.