Is Gosling really this stupid?

The "clear need" that Magnusson cites is anything but clear to Gosling, who says Sun has received negative response from the enterprise development community regarding the idea of open-source Java. "We've got several thousand man-years of engineering in [Java], and we hear very strongly that if this thing turned into an open source project—where just any old person could check in stuff—they'd all freak. They'd all go screaming into the hills."

I don't know James - has it been a problem for NetBeans? Is the Apache project in chaos? Is Eclipse? If you don't want to open source Java, that's fine, and believe me, I'd understand. What I don't get is why you have to make crap up instead of just saying no.