[thrawaway3292]

I doubt VirtualBox was even a line item on Sun's financials, so I really doubt that had anything to do with their failure.

[nvm0n1]

What I meant is, a lackadaisical approach to billing and asking for money was common at Sun for everything software related, same thing for Java which was definitely a line item.

[dredmorbius]

Hardware was Sun's revenue model.

Cost of revenue for penny-ante fluff would have been orders of magnitude greater than actual revenue. Goodwill and other benefits substantively greater.

Blaming Sun's demise on Virtualbox largess is ludicrous on its face.