Just for reference, before the torches and pitchforks come out against Oracle, Apache has butted heads with Sun over essentially the same issue: http://www.apache.org/jcp/sunopenletter.html
True, but in the context of all of the recent activity in the Java world (Apple dropping Java; IBM switching from Apache Harmony to Oracle Java; Oracle suing Google), this takes on a new meaning than if you were just viewing it on its own.