The confusion here is perhaps that I jumped from B to F. The number of successful Opensource projects in Javaworld are astounding, and the OSS/Library work in .net is there but in comparison is miniscule. That feeds into the stereotype of .net developers being cookie-cutter VB-eseque Enterprise developers, which even feeds into their pay.

JavaWorld is bigger and Java developer count exceeds .net developer count, so the whole scarcity thing is a static explanation of a much complex dynamic environment. The intent here is not to complain about .net dev wages.