Comments on: Shark! Shark! in the IT business http://blog.frankel.ch/shark-shark-in-the-it-business Nicolas Fränkel blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:06:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicolas Frankel http://blog.frankel.ch/shark-shark-in-the-it-business/comment-page-1#comment-486 Nicolas Frankel Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:32:51 +0000 http://blog.frankel.ch/?p=256#comment-486 Sorry Jean-Pierre, I must disagree on your point, since JBoss 5 is still available in GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Open Source license. Check jboss.org (as opposed to jboss.com). This kind of deal is the best for everyone since you have all benefits of OpenSource but with service equally available. The biggest argument against Open Source was the lack of support in the old days. MySQL and JBoss offer the best of both worlds IMHO. What worries me more is the single vendor dystopia where you have no choice over your products because there's only one provider. Sorry Jean-Pierre, I must disagree on your point, since JBoss 5 is still available in GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Open Source license. Check jboss.org (as opposed to jboss.com).

This kind of deal is the best for everyone since you have all benefits of OpenSource but with service equally available. The biggest argument against Open Source was the lack of support in the old days. MySQL and JBoss offer the best of both worlds IMHO.

What worries me more is the single vendor dystopia where you have no choice over your products because there’s only one provider.

]]> By: Jean-Pierre http://blog.frankel.ch/shark-shark-in-the-it-business/comment-page-1#comment-485 Jean-Pierre Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:42:05 +0000 http://blog.frankel.ch/?p=256#comment-485 Nice and interesting article ! I do wonder what happens with people who invested a lot of their free time contributing to an open source project, fueling by their effort what the french philosopher Bernard Stiegler calls the contributive economy, when this articular open source product is purchased by one of those "shark" and is no longer available freely, like is the case with the last versions of JBoss 5 ? I'd be curious to know if they are angry, disappointed, if this shark eat'em all game may endanger the open source institution or if everything is ok in the best possible world. Nice and interesting article ! I do wonder what happens with people who invested a lot of their free time contributing to an open source project, fueling by their effort what the french philosopher Bernard Stiegler calls the contributive economy, when this articular open source product is purchased by one of those “shark” and is no longer available freely, like is the case with the last versions of JBoss 5 ? I’d be curious to know if they are angry, disappointed, if this shark eat’em all game may endanger the open source institution or if everything is ok in the best possible world.

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