Re:Why? It hurts MS ... maybe (Score 1)

I see the whole thing as Sun's trying to kick start the device support (which is totally lacking on the x86 side), but maintaining some culpability for the product they sell. I've been in this business a long time, and been on the short and long side of "suport contracts". IT's a total PITA when you've got a problem and can't get it resolved because of some support issue (like support being cut for budget purposes) and a blessing when they can assign 3 engineers to go fix that problem. The issue about the source changes and who controls them is who own's the changes. If some programmer changes a driver in your version of Linux, and you're running a production system, who ya gonna sue or who's feet will you hold to the fire? You run Solaris and got support, Sun has ownership of the changes. Plain and simple.