Money money money. This is what Larry cares about and NOTHING else.

I am sure if it is a possible future asset and its not making money today it will be closed down and stored out of public view. If sun has an open source project you care about a full check out of source would be suggested ASAP.

Those middle men were there before, this is just a reduction in the number of middle men.

The RIAA has gone a long way toward destroying itself, deep gaffes that it won't fully understand for 10 years.

Though their motivations may not be so philanthropic, at least consumer electronics corporations are on the side of the people like you and I. After all, they know that consumers will not purchase crippled, copy-protected products. Hopefully, this will result in a somewhat more balanced result when laws are passed. Call me cynical, but I feel that the Hollywood lobby's advantage is quite large and the laws will likely get passed.