>> It makes sense when your primary source of revenue comes from service 
>> contracts. 
> 
> Actually, it makes a lot more sense when your primary source of revenue 
> isn't software at all. Sun gives away Java because they make their money 
> selling hardware.

And yet Apple doesn't do the same. ;-)

(Mind you, Apple's software is what *makes* people buy their hardware...)

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