I think you're missing the point of open source, my friend.
Though it would certainly be polite and appropriate, there is no
requirement that organizations wishing to use jBoss must contribute to
jBoss. Personally, I find the best way to get software to where you want
it is to work on it not to wait for it, but clearly not everyone agrees.
I can tell you this for sure: I would not be using Linux, Apache,
Tomcat, Emacs, or any of the other dozens of open source tools I use on a
daily basis if I was expected to make a significant contribution to each.
Frankly, I think you should pop a bottle of champagne every time someone
(Telkel or otherwise) picks jBoss for a business-critical environment.
Except then, your code quality would go quickly downhill... :)
Aaron
P.S. How do you think Red Hat feels about Mandrake?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Rickard [iso-8859-1] �berg wrote:
> Now I'm confused.
>
> <std-disclaimer type="this is not the opinion of my employer.. etc.">
>
> There's a new ASP around called ejip.net. The interesting part is that
> they are going to use jBoss as server. Now, Telkel (where I and Marc
> work) is also going to provide an ASP service which you all can use to
> deploy your apps on the web. But instead of just using stuff from
> someone else we actually do things to make it, jBoss that is, happen.
> AFAIK ejip.net does not have anyone actively helping out here.
>
> So, one interesting question is: is it fair for someone like them to
> take advantage of jBoss - to build their core services on top of - and
> not give anything back? In my humble opinion, no. Of course not.
> Everyone who is working on jBoss currently does so because they
> understand that the only way to get this piece of software to be the
> best it can be is to work together towards the common goal of making it
> the best thing since sliced bread. By using it without helping the
> community that is putting hard work into it to make this happen is to
> say "hey cool stuff, sure we'll use it! but we're not gonna help ya
> build it 'cause we're too busy doing proprietary stuff around it". IMHO
> of course. Perfectly legal, but not very good manners.
>
> I would love to hear ejip.net's opinion about this. I'm sure I have
> missed something. It can't be this bad, right?
>
> It's not that I don't like competition, I just don't like joyriders.
>
> So, what's the story, Verge Corporation?
>
> regards,
> Rickard
>
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