Two-faced Boss of JBoss
by Cem Basman
Once stuff is out, it is archived, cached, indexed in many services that you might never be aware of. And somebody is going to digg your old shit to the surface and republish it. You can be sure of this ...
Marc Fleury, Founder, still Chairman and CEO of JBoss, is quite two-faced. The Register revealed that he sanitized his blog before aquisition through Red Hat. Before the deal he had written a lot of Red-Hat-bashing. Here are some quotations from his September 2004 postings:
- Red Hat is a shit-wrapping "open source wannabee" and "open source girly man"
- RH is a PACKAGER not a technology house
- RH is a packager, it doesn't create JACK, it doesn't create Linux, it wraps it up in proprietary shit. And no the contributions that they make don't really count. Linus Torvalds creates Linux
- RH doesn't create any significant technology
- greedy 3rd party packer
- RH wants to keep the services revenues all
- RH is NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF PAYING OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS
Neither Marc Fleury nor Red Hat has made a comment on this yet. You see, Open Source is a business like any other when it comes to money and fame. However, I still think the deal is the right move, it is a significant one on the market and the new constellation is gaining a lot of momentum through this.
[News via Wolfgang Sommergut]
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> "You see, Open Source is a business like any other when it comes to money and fame"
This article comes to my mind, though it adds an overdose of negative tone to the open source idea.
Gana, thanks for sharing this article. You might think, Open Source is a pond full of piranhas ;)
There are two movements in the Open Source market INHO:
One is, it is expanding and diversifying very fast. New technologies, new methods, new patterns are created They grow, they mutate and they split into new trends. A constant change.
On the other hand, there are forces which try to consolidate und glue things together. They aggregate and cluster. Companies like spikesource, OpenLogic or SourceLab come to mind. Or (for different reasons) deals like Red Hat and JBoss.
It's very dynamic. And very exciting.
Cem, I very much believe, support and respect the idea of opensource and mean nothing negative. I will certainly like to see it grow and become stronger.
I felt that volker's one liner summarised what I read in the article (if you remove that overly negative tone, bias etc from that article), thats all.
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