It even gave Hani some ammo other than that from the TSS Symposium :)
I think I know why they are doing this though. It isn't to do with opensource, nor making a better JVM, or anything like that.
It is all about the Apple!
I polled the group that have put their name to the petition at Apache, and they are all Mac users. These poor people are so sick of the Apple support that they want to write something decent themselves so they aren't behind the times all the time ;) ;) ;)