| "Genuitec CEO Maher Masri doesn't like what Red Hat employees such as Gavin King are saying about his companies use of open source in their MyEclipse product. Masri " "I truly believe many people who wear the open source badge completely miss the intent and spirit behind it. And, in the case of JBoss, even use it as a sharp stick to poke, bully and intimidate those that disagree with them." " with Exadel that resulted in JBoss RichFaces and JBoss Ajax4jsf to be released under the Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL), and eventually the entire Red Hat Developer Studio (formerly Exadel Studio Pro) to be released under the regular GPL license. King " "Some of us believe that Genuitec are skirting waaay to close to an LGPL violation over bundled modifications to Hibernate Tools. Repeated attempts on our part to get them to modify their behavior in this respect as resulted in nothing but empty promises. That's one reason why we decided to go GPL on the Exadel toolset - to break the Genuitec model of "take but never give back"." "Masri counters that Genuitec has given plenty back to the community, citing that his company has shipped over 4 million downloads for its connector to JBoss and 3 million downloads of JBoss Hibernate, not to mention answering over 10,000 questions on its support forums on how to configure and use the JBoss application server. Masri:" "You can imagine my surprise when the partnership announcement by RedHat quickly degenerated into finger-pointing and name calling all under the guise of the "purity" of open source. The conversation became even more surreal as the debate raged over what open source license would provide more protection from adopters that "leech" off the open-source code base." "All the licenses mentioned ? GPL, LGPL, and EPL ? require that modifications and improvements
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