If you sold something for a billion dollars, and you had a 1% chance of getting it back just by writing some letters and blog posts, so that you could sell it again for another billion dollars, would you do it? If you had a much-higher-than-1% chance of getting Sun/Oracle to pay you many millions of dollars just to STFU, would you do it?

Some of us would say "no," others "yes." Monty is definitely a "yes" man.