Playing The JBoss Speculation Game
It's the license, stupid!
Marc Fluery's latest blog entry teased us with "we GOT SOME DYNAMITE OF AN ANNOUNCEMENT COMING OUT ON TUESDAY MORNING". And the speculation has began by Matt Raible and Eric Burke.
Here's my prediction: JBoss will go GPL.
(Fictional) text of the announcement:
Oops! Rickard is right. We've been distributing JBoss with the wrong license for the past five years. It should have been GPL all along, not LGPL. It's an honest mistake (wink, wink).
For all the leeches out there who are bundling JBoss with their proprietary products, don't worry. JBoss is a professional open source company and will see to it that your product line is viable for the future. For you and your customers, we'll offer you our newly crafted sucker's license—you pay us 2.5 cents per transaction per side!
SCO just bought our license.
The other option is to make your product GPL too, you can then sell training and services at high prices. Let me tell you it not that bad. Take the red pill.
Oh boy, do we look like a REAL FIRM now!