On Mar 28, 2010, at 438AM, De Groot, Cees wrote: > Sadly enough, we don't live in fairyland so we have to live with the concepts > of companies needing to make a living ;)
Right. Open source developers dont need to be paid either, just companies. > > Asking companies to 'just give [improvements] back' completely ignores the > complexities of the real world. There are lots of reasons why that cannot > simply be done, and all you can do is to see whether you can be a decent > community player even without, say, giving away your competitive advantages. > I think GigaSpaces is at the very least to be commended for their efforts in > that direction. Sorry, dont see GigaSpaces as being commended for efforts as it relates to being a decent (Jini) community player. If you look in the archives its pretty much been a channel to direct developers to their product. At it's core, GigaSpaces provides a Space Based Architecture, and is a commercial JavaSpaces implementation. The core is the "GigaSpace". Its very well written and is blazingly fast. But you of course know this since you're a GigaSpaces customer and presenter, so I wont continue here. With that said, I dont see how improvements to Jini (or other open source projects that GigaSpaces has forked) has anything to do with GigaSpaces' competitive advantage. They have made changes to underlying technology that has been given to them for free, why not publicly strengthen the foundation upon which they are built? Improvements to reggie not only benefit GigaSpaces, but can benefit this community, and if provided back to this community end up strengthening GigaSpaces. I guess you and Shay just dont get that part. I'm not asking for them to give away their crown jewel. If they have made improvements to reggie, why not give them back?
