"...leaving the company in the hands of new owner Oracle (ORCL) and its very profit-minded leadership"<p>Maybe I'm reading too much into the above statement, but the point of a company is to make profits. There are these things called "charities" for cases when you don't want to do that.<p>That said, Sun's approach in recent years has certainly been a mess. They have failed to really make open source work for them as a strategy in the same way companies like IBM and Apple have.