Know Why Sun is open sourcing its Java platform implementation

James Gosling, widely regarded as the father of Java technology, has been hard at work helping Sun Microsystems with its efforts to open source Sun's Java SE (JDK) and Java ME implementations. The Java EE implementation has been open sourced for over a year as Project GlassFish. Let's know from Gosling how things are going to open source Java plarform implementations.
Just Check what Gosling Says regarding Open Sourcing JDK Implementations:

"We want better conversations with the developer community... We want to have better relationships with many of the Linux distributions."
"The source code is being open sourced, but the process of defining the spec is still the Java Community Process."

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http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews