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We just made #4 on dzone, please keep the votes coming, let's see if
we can make #1<br>
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Mark<br>
On 03/09/2010 01:47, Mark Proctor wrote:
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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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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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And please vote up at Digg and DZone to help raise awareness:<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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Mark - The Mischievous Lead<br>
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