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Ted Neward “prediction” #14: “My long-shot dream: JBoss goes out of business, the JBoss source code goes back to being maintained by developers whose principal interest is in maintaining open-source projects rather than making money, and it all gets folded together with what the Geronimo folks are doing. In other words, the open-source community stops the infighting and starts pulling oars in the same direction at the same time. For once.”

First of all, JBoss isn’t going out of business anytime soon. They happen to be quite successful and will continue to be so (check that prediction on 1/1/2007).

Second, we need to address the Open Source community hippie love going on here. Open-source is not synonymous with cooperation or community or distributed control or anything like that. Even at Apache MANY projects have a majority of committers which are all from the same company. Projects are out there because they benefit someone in some way. While there could be cooperation it is in none of the business’s best interests, even if it may be in the community’s best interest.

Note to self: make ridiculous predictions some time tomorrow.

This entry was posted on Monday, January 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 pm and is filed under Random.