RedHat buys JBoss: a fun quote from the past
Posted by pat 154 days ago
It seems like RedHat bought JBoss today, for $350 million: not bad!
When discussing that in the ossgtp (open source get together paris) mailing list, a fellow open sourcer, Philip Mark Donaghy, sent out a link to a Google cached page of an old post from Marc Fleury's blog entitled Sun vs Red Hat, who is more Open Source. It was published in september 2004. It seems the page is not on Marc's blog anymore:-). A quote from it:
RH is a PACKAGER, not a technology house. How do they DARE call SUN on technology innovation. SUN by all measures has been a star in technology. SUN created more technology over the years than RH ever will, JAVA, NFS (open source) etc. RH is a packager, it doesn't create JACK, it doesn't create Linux, it wraps it up in proprietary shit. And no the contributions that they make don't really count. Linus Torvalds creates Linux.
It sounds quite fun when reading Marc's new post about the RedHat acquisition:
RedHat and JBoss share a joint culture of pure-play open source. While different, our cultures are both centered around the mission of changing the industry through the development, distribution and support of free and open source software.
Who could blame him? $350 millions is a fair price to change one's mind:-) I wonder what Hani will write about this when he knows.
