June 04, 2003
Core Developers Network
This might be the single best thing to happen to the JBoss project. Cool people, real values and experience to back those, and the acid test to check MarcF's real feelings on the mix between open source and business. Let's see how he stands up, and let's hope these two business entities are able to collaborate on a single codebase, fostering a shared community while taking care of their respective business. A model who has been working surprisingly well for a good deal of the Apache projects, where individual committers add even more spice to the mix. I'm pretty sure the Ministry of Love will explain this as the cataclysm announcing the approaching death of the JBoss project, but I'm confident it will just make things worse for them, just as the competition between Redhat & SuSE proves to be healthy for the prosperity of Linux. Great news!