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JBoss Founder Hard-Nosed About Open Source
Infonaut writes "In this Business Week interview, JBoss founder Marc Fleury refers to "hobbyist" Open Source contributors and makes the case that "no one is going to work for free." Fleury dismisses people who contribute for something other than money as "Hari Krishnas" and makes reference to the "hippie dream". Fleury's sharp, profit-focused approach has brought him success, but isn't it in some sense built on the shoulders of the hippies and hobbyists he seems to scorn?"
Just let him say what he wants about open source software. I know that I'll never support his company from now on, and I feel quite safe in saying that open source software will continue to innovate far beyond anything his commercial world of software developers will produce.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
There are indeed many OSS projects that have fragmented and become dead due to maintainer burnout. Mr. Louis Cyphre of JBoss (aren't those the people that "Astro-Turf" their products on various blogs like Slashdot?) may be an arrogant jackass, but in this case, while it's not what you communists want to hear, he may have a point.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
An unmistakable sign of communism at work is monopoly. Also, communism is a regime where you're kindly invited to share. If you don't you get a bullet in the head. That's a little different from Open Source. Novell and Red Hat are enterprises. They believe in capitalism and the Open Source model fuels competition, which is an unmistakable mark of capitalism.
He's making bank.... the jealous ones are those who are still poor.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
I see that you have an arabic name so I am curious. Did you mean communist as in "not a religious fundamentalist"? I remember Osama Bin Laden calling Saddam Hussein a "communist" because he was a secular leader who disliked religious fundamentalists. Apparently in the arabic culture people who are secular are called communists sometimes.
I don't want to try and judge you by yoru name, after all you might have said communist because you are a right wing zealot pulling out the old redbaiting tactics to try and win arguments. It's a commonly used shortcut of ideological zealots whose minds are not allowed to reach some conclusions that are against their rigid belief systems.
evil is as evil does