The essance of the talk was:
Open Source is good (not only code, also products [specifications])
reducing the dependency between the developer and the user
programmers improve their code style (someone else can read your stuff)
Strategy of SUN
He anwsered the question why SUN is doing open-source
Interesting points:
Java
happens transparently (ref: mobile phone and blue-ray players)
is running on 6^9 devices (hope I got it right)
Oracle Enterprise Edition costs 400.000 $ per core(!)
Cool quotes:
"Free is the new black!"
"Return on no-investment."
"Steal software legally"
"We don't want you to do .NET! Watch your hands!"
Provided links during the talk:
Netbeans.tv: the community site of Netbeans.
Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) A developer edition of solaris with many tools
All in all I can say that Scott is a really good entertainer. It was a really nice talk!
Thanks to Prof. Brandenburg for the information.