Hang on a moment! Let me make a point that I am sure has been made a hundred times before: what makes JBoss different from Ant, emacs, Debian, Tomcat, Struts, the list server operator for my favourite mailing list etc etc?
I would be down $100 if I had to pay for all the docs. And when it gets that far, what will stop JBoss starting to charge for software too? There are some principles involved here. It's the beginning of commercialisation and it's the effects of commercialisation that the original open-source founders were seeking to avoid. Commercialisation is useful in many areas, but there should be clear dividing lines between it and open-source, otherwise you will lose the benefits that open-source brought. JBoss is starting to push it and has obscured the boundaries. When another open-source J2EE server comes along, then I'm sure it wouldn't take long for it to become the 1st choice for the open-source world. To me, JBoss is becoming too much like RedHat. Business models and 'enterprise' this and that. PS whether I contribute or not (and I do) is actually irrelevant. And if I wanted to contribute financially, say I make alot of money with my current project (dream on!), I can donate at numerous places. <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3826670#3826670";>View the original post</a> <a href="http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3826670>Reply to the post</a> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
