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Progress has recently ripped off the Drools community and has
offered nothing in return, not even a curtesy nod of accreditation
for our hard work.. 30% of that 49mill USD would go a long way to
helping us invest in our tooling which would benefit all of us :)
and maybe the Drools team can have it's next team meeting in Hawaii
and pay for all the community members to come too. Cocktails anyone?
:)<br>
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href="http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/progress-buy-bridge-in-brooklyn-savvion.html">http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/progress-buy-bridge-in-brooklyn-savvion.html</a><br>
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I'm just having a little bit of fun, at their expense, which is well
deserved for such shockingly bad behaviour. So I would urge anyone
else to join in and have some fun too :) Do your own blogs, polls
etc to bring attention to this.<br>
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href="http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/breaking-news-have-your-vote-on-what.html">http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/breaking-news-have-your-vote-on-what.html</a><br>
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And please vote up at Digg and DZone to help raise awareness:<br>
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href="http://digg.com/news/technology/drools_progress_buy_a_bridge_in_brooklyn_savvion_brms_and_make_del_boy_trotter_proud">http://digg.com/news/technology/drools_progress_buy_a_bridge_in_brooklyn_savvion_brms_and_make_del_boy_trotter_proud</a><br>
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Being slightly less tongue in check, this is just the reality of
open source, I've been doing this a long time now and I know you
just have to live with it, take the lumps with the smooth - as long
as you get more smooth than lumps, it's still worthwhile :) At it's
best it brings people together who collaborate and help each other
and enrich the open-source eco system. At it's worst you have
organisations such as Progress executing on predatory amoral
tactics. The debate on whether all corporations are ultimately
operating on degrees of amorality is out of scope for today :) As
each year goes buy you start to appreciate Red Hat more for the
sterling work it does in open source. While it would be nice if
Progress got involved and contributed to Drools, the reality is that
this doesn't both me as much as you think it would. It hasn't
lestened the Drools community and technology, we still go from
strength to strength, and I've always been more concerned about what
we are doing and achieving than what someone else may or may not be
doing with regards to taking advantage of our work.<br>
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Ultimately this is actually quite flattering and re-affirms the
strength of our technology and the directions we are going. I'd
rather have an organisation using Drools and moving it one step
closing to being a defacto standard, than they partner with someone
else or develop yet another rule engine splintering the market and
confusing users. "Drools Everywhere" has alwas been my moto :)<br>
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However that said, anyone who knows me, knows I have a mischievous
sense of humour and if Progress and Savvion aren't even going to at
the very least accredit us then they are fair game and surely myself
and the Drools community deserve a little fun at their expense :)<br>
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<br>
Mark - The Mischievous Lead<br>
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