Guys
I thought this kind of fight only happened between lawyers and in a
courthouse, you�ve been giving the wrong idea of what open source
development should really be: cooperation and sharing, I always had this
naive idea of open source developers being the crusaders of the 21th century
fighting against the enemy called bad unstandarized commercial software but
in the end i find them fighting each other because of stupid license called
GPL or APL or BSD or whatsoever.
Unfortunately this licenses are necessary evil . But I�ve seen really some
low arguments here and I remember someone saying:
"some people at apachecon are unhappy about the way jboss is being licensed
and are actually thinking about taking the code????"
I say just f*****g try to do it. Source code is just a snapshot of what a
product is. To make it evolve, to make it dynamic it�s the people that make
it happen and as long as Rickard, Marc, Dan, Aaron, Ole and so many other
JBoss contributors stick together there is no f*****g chance that the code
could break. JBoss has the potential to become the Apache of the EJB servers
at least IMHO, so threats like the one before are really really bad to open
source development and it saddens me that there are actually people that
think this way.
But clearly there are some legal issues here, i�m not a lawyer and i really
think a lawyer should be consulted here. In the event of legal dispute over
JBoss it�s not Marc�s opinion or Donald�s opinion that will count, the only
one that it counts its the lawyer�s and the judge�s so they should also be
considered in this flame war.
Regards
Roberto
