Hi Hank
>Well, Sun never sued,
fact

>because they believed the good the community should come first.

Not pure conjecture, but perhaps some PR BS coupled with significant lack of funds this century ?

> It's a bit of a sea change in corporate culture.
Ummmhh not totally. IMHO only 50% of the MS/sun spat had reasonable grounds back then, but sun won both counts.
So MS stopped devloping J++ as main language and created the totally new C#...

regards

thomas