Oh my.... although we are developing on Weblogic right
now, I am working on convincing the management of our
company that an open-source server is something that
we should look at in the future.
But it would be really hard to convince them that we
must also allocate programmer's bandwidth to help
developing JBoss.
Am I missing something about the JBoss-version of GPL?
Xiaopong
Rickard �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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