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JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity

Posted by simoniker on from the tomahawks-at-dawn dept.

Kanagawa writes "This morning, Jim Jagielski, Exec. V.P. and Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation, announced on the geronimo-dev mailing list that 'the ASF received a letter from JBoss's lawyers regarding... the similarity of code between [J2EE implementation] Geronimo and JBoss.' The letter is available in PDF. According to the letter, similarities were noticed back in July, and haven't been fixed."

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  1. Remember the old saying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Good programmer's copy, great programmer's steal!!"

    meh.. I got nothing.

    1. Re:Remember the old saying by snake_dad · · Score: 2, Funny

      Ten monkeys, five hours.

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  2. Re:Any point? by cscx · · Score: 1, Funny

    On the same note, I guess it would be appropriate to ask the Gnome developers why Gnome needs five clocks...

  3. One questoin by TLouden · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which one is SCO and which is IBM, I'm a little slow on this stuff.

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  4. Just 5!!! by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn, must make more GTK/Gnome clocks.

    Bye!!!!

    1. Re:Just 5!!! by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm writing one in Ruby, and a BINARY clock in shell, awk and dd!

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  5. Both Apache and JBoss have gone too far... by ikkyikkyikkypikang · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the example on page 8 of the letter you can see they are BOTH attempting to copyright the freaking SWITCH construct!

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  6. There's an easy way out... by stienman · · Score: 1, Funny

    For the next two months, JBoss will license portions of its code to Geronimo's developers and users for half off, only $699!

    -Adam

  7. Re:When lawyers present code in documents... by Pakaran2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can picture that, not having seen the code.

    for(int c; c max; c++) if checkSomething(c) ... ;

    and then your lawyers have claimed copyright on the entire function call - how lovely :)

  8. Bad Move! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Umm... aren't you supposed to sue for gobs of money before you show the infringements? Don't they know how our legal system works?!

  9. Come back after the slash effect by Tuross · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had never heard of Geronimo before, so I did the lemming thing and clicked on the link in the article and got the message in the subject. Now I'm not sure about you, but is it telling me that I should revisit their website after I feel relieved by urinating?

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  10. Re:Who is going to sue me? by stevey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would .. but in my version I spelt "somebody" correctly.

    Still, following the principle of karmic balance I've misspelt a word or tow in this relpy.