In Java in The Land of Make Believe , Ryan Tomayko unloads a righteous rant about why Java's license matters and what effects it has in the Linux and *BSD worlds, with great bits like:

If you want to get on the bad side of software developers and system admins, the fastest route is to waste their time .

Amen. What he said .

(The good news is that Sun GPL'ing Java may finally be changing all of this mess, which Tomayko happily acknowledges.)

(From many places, but I saw it originally on Planet Python , as Tomayko's blog is syndicated there.)