Open Source “Wannabes” and “Girly Men” Who “Doesn’t Create JACK” Buys JBoss, Open Source J2EE Vendor

April 10th, 2006 by Angsuman Chakraborty

I found this hilarious blog entry (in present context) by Marc Fleury, CEO JBoss, against RedHat via Blogging Roller site. He adorns RedHat with some choice epithets which I am sure he wouldn’t like to be reminded in present context. So understandably his blog has been sanitized but Google cache isn’t so kind.

Some interesting quotes from Marc Fleury:
“RH is a PACKAGER, not a technology house. How do they DARE call SUN on technology innovation.”

“RH is a packager, it doesn’t create JACK, it doesn’t create Linux, it wraps it up in proprietary shit.”

“Our own talks with RH broke down, RH is NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF PAYING OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPERS, we are, that is why we created JBoss inc. RH wanted to keep the services revenues all to themselves. That is the dirty little secret, so for them to come out and claim they are the open source when we know the reality is distasteful.”

“So to me both SUN and RH are open source “wannabees”, or as one of my developers put “open source girly men”.”

“We are not third party packagers fleecing open source developers and refusing to pay them or corporate entities desperate for some buzz and OSS credibility.”

Update: Register picks up the story.

PS. I wonder how long it will take before the page is removed from Google cache.

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Jing Xue Says:
April 10th, 2006 at 4:58 pm

I am actually more surprised by Fleury pulling the “Ministry of Truth” stunt on his past blog entry than the news itself.

Angsuman Chakraborty Says:
April 10th, 2006 at 11:00 pm

Please educate me on the “Ministry of truth” stunt.

Jing Xue Says:
April 11th, 2006 at 11:57 am

IMHO, JBoss being bought-out by Red Hat is a perfectly normal business event. And it is JBoss the Company being bought, not Marc Fleury personally accepting a RH job offer (of course the acquisition may lead to him becoming a RH employee but that’d still be different). If you are the CEO of a company and you are blogging on a company server, you probably don’t want to write down things you are going to regret later in the first place. If you did, that’s OK too - things change, nobody has to stand by their opinions forever, especially in this technology+business world. But at least have the courage to admit “well things have changed, now evidently I don’t think of them that way any more”, instead of going back in time and “sanitize” your blog entries.

Angsuman Chakraborty Says:
April 11th, 2006 at 12:53 pm

I agree. What he probably didn’t count on is that his omission will make this entry much more famous than he intended
Today news.com also picked it up and linked back to this post.