On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Jack Frosch wrote:
> Open source projects typically solve a problem not addressed by > commercial vendors, even if the problem is just the price being charged > for the commercial solution. Yet we already have a very popular, > open-source J2EE container in JBoss. > > Why must people's egos get in the way of common sense in our business as > in so many? Like Microsoft, it appears that Apache.org just wants to > control everything - and that's just such a lamentable motivation, > whether held by Microsoft or Apache.org. > > How about swallowing your pride, giving up your aspirations of > controlling every popular, open-source, significant project, and just > embrace JBoss with support, MBean development, etc.? > > Frankly, I'm just dismayed by the Geronimo project and the pettiness of > the egos driving Apache.org. First, I'm nothing to do with Geronimo or an official Apache member. I am however a JBoss user: My guess is that it is due to legal positions. Apache cannot work with LGPL/GPL derived work due to the nature of those licences. JBoss are a for-profit organisation and don't seem to be becoming a J2EE-licenced server. So the leading 'free-software' option is not available to anyone who believes in standards. Apache are a non-profit, and an 'open-source-software', and can make a J2EE-licenced server happen. There is also the belief that diversity improves products. It shows that Apache aren't trying to control things as they're happy to re-use existing products with open-source licences. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
