I love Sun but...
I love Sun but, dear God, they can't do an IDE right to save their lives!
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One advantage of the open source development model is that every now and then some talented hacker will come out of the woodwork with some new feature/extension/bugfix or something. If it's good people will use it. The maintainer (in this case Sun Microsystems) should then go "Hey this is cool" and add it to the main 'offical' version. In the closed source development model the only people who can come up with new features are your employees. If Sun doesn't want to add features from random third parties then they don't really 'get' open source development, and their products and their users will be worse off for it.
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