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We’ve got a bundle of opensource communities all over the place now. Some of them are the opensource arm of an otherwise capitalistic commercial entity:

JBoss.ORG
SugarForge
OpenLaszlo
MySQL.org

Others are non-profit, or not tightly tied to a corporation:

Apache Software Foundation
Codehaus Foundation
OpenQA

None of these should be confused with .nets, such as SourceForge.net or java.net. The .nets of the world [...]

Sure, you see the word “parasitic” and the first thing that pops to mind is probably “ewww.”
But parasitic behavior is actually a good strategy for new communities, as long as they don’t ultimately kill their host.
Last night Rysiek pinged me about some thoughts on how to improve JBoss Portal, by allowing the core team to [...]

I applaud the recent announcement between JBoss (Red Hat) and Exadel.
JBoss, through Seam, is committed to JSF, the standard view framework for Java EE applications. The Exadel components represent a nice set of JSF-compatible chunks to help build rich applications, using AJAX and such.
To be honest, I’m still learning JSF myself.
But from a business [...]

I’ve been having the same conversation repeatedly over the past few weeks, with several of my friends. I’m tired of having the conversation, so I’m now going to sum it up with a URL I can paste in place of it.
I know a lot of really good guys. Really excellent engineers who have [...]

Henri Yanell made some comments on my previous post. I interpreted them to mean something like the following:

Within a project’s community, one or more companies may spring forth from the project. They share the same community and prospects, and their customers may overlap. (Overlapping customers not shown).
Additionally. within a thriving community exists [...]

First, there was the project.

The project was created by some guy, in some spare bedroom, at some hour in the dark of night, in some town. He may have done it out of academic interest. Or maybe it solved some problem for him. Ultimately, others shared the same interest or problem, and the [...]

Monday morning, I woke up to find myself transformed into a Red Hat employee.
Yes, that’s right, I’ve joined Red Hat. More specifically, I joined JBoss, a division of Red Hat, to lead up JBoss.ORG. You may recall that a little more than a year ago, JBoss acquired the Drools business rule engine. [...]

Being an OSX user, I’ve felt massive amounts of unlove from TiVo, in terms of the TiVoDesktop, TiVoToGo, etc.  But now, man, the guys behind tivodecode have come to my rescue.  While playing with it, I also discovered that the TiVo actually produces a nice XML feed, and mine at least attempts to serve up [...]

I like snack.
At the supermarket, they have a variety of trail-mixes available, which I buy even though I seldom walk on trails. Even within a single species of mix, there can be good tubs, excellent tubs, and downright crappy tubs. I start to get the feeling that trail-mix mixing is more of an [...]

Brian Topping had the foresight to bring his digital SLR and document the Oof Uncamp gathering last Tuesday evening. Attendees included some current and ex-ThoughtWorkers (Paul Hammant, Kurt Schrader), some guy from Ning (Brian McCallister), a cow-orker (Pete Royal) and a VP of something-or-another at Yahoo! (Sam Pullara). Plus our intrepid photo-historian, Brian [...]