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Story: JBoss hopes to expand 'ownership' of open source

Posted by: Barney Farwick (Friday 2 April 2004, 5:56 PM)

Microsoft fans ?...

JBoss is far less of a proprietary
company than Suse, Mandrake, Redhat,
IBM, or Novell. As a matter of fact,
all code by JBoss is released completely
(afaik) under the LGPL. The use of
the word 'own' in this article should
be clear to any person whose native
tongue is English.

I suspect Mark Fluery's only regret so
far is that he didn't go straight GPL
all the way.

Calling JBoss proprietary software is
simply not true -- I don't think the
poster meant to lie. He is most
likely a careless reader who responds
in xenophobic fashion to anything
non-linux.

If you want to focus on someone who is
taking the Linux experience
proprietary, have a look at RedHat.
Better yet have a look at how they
attempt to lock-in customers via
'timing out' of versions, and
proprietary add-ons to enhance the
linux experience.

Do a 'google' for:
fluery red white blue

Read the position papers. Then you'll
understand how wrong you are about
this fine company.

Question: Do you despise Gnome because Miguel de Icaza admires Microsoft?

Barney