Clearly, you don't understand open source. The complaint isn't about who owns the code its about what it means to be an owner, contributor, etc., in an OSS project and leave the company that initially sponsored the project. It appears in this case that all the owners were laid off, Sun panicked and resorted to thuggery to get full control over the project. Obviously, this sucks for the users of OpenDS as I'm sure, without the previous leadership, its melting down as we speak.