Don, perhaps, but there's another way to look at the control issue. I think that IBM has learned that it could not win a closed systems game. They learned it with zOS, they learned it again with OS/2 and AIX. They play the game with middleware, for example. But the server folks are very proud of their Oracle and Microsoft benchmarks, and IBM Global Services will happily sell you almost anything you want... even JBoss I expect.
When you see IBM, perhaps anybody else push open source it's to "disrupt"... its a weapon to poke a hole in someone else's closed business model... or business models with closed components... and capture some of the value (developers, customers, partners) that fall out of the hole. It also saves on development costs.
So you could take the view that "the point" of open source Java would be to melt Java into the Linux distros as a commodity, and capture the value that falls out elsewhere. In any event I think the last thing they would do is "fork" the code base... it would drive value away and defeat the purpose of it all.
All right - we will see what happens.
I will save all of these threads.
Of course everyone will claim they were right regardless of what actually happens.........
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