Good post Bart (in fact last night we were all agreeing that your blog is generally very good).

I was pondering over what benefits I'd get from a GPLed Java but you've outlined them nicely. The idea of apt-getting Java is cool.

Something that I am wondering is will the OSS adopt Java and forget about all the previous animosity. Also will Sun accept patches. Will Desktop Java code become the norm? Does this mean I can finally write stuff for Gnome that might be of use to people? Will Free Software projects learn from their mistakes with GTK/KDE libs, and provide good solid developer docs?

Time will tell I guess.