How does Sun make money?

From: PlasmaDragon (PlasmaDragon_at_lycos.co.uk)
Date: 04/24/04 

Date: 24 Apr 2004 12:00:55 -0700

Sun seems to be a capitalist corporation (correct me if I'm wrong),
and those rarely do anything that won't eventually lead to some more
revenue/profits. So I am confused: the JavaVM is free; the Java SDK
is free; Java IDEs like NetBeans are free. So how does Sun benefit
from Java?

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