[rules-users] Shame on Progress and Savvion

[Mark Proctor]

  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? :)

http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/progress-buy-bridge-in-brooklyn-savvion.html

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.

http://blog.athico.com/2010/09/breaking-news-have-your-vote-on-what.html

And please vote up at Digg and DZone to help raise awareness:
http://www.dzone.com/links/progress_buy_a_bridge_in_brooklyn_savvion_brms_an.html 
<http://www.dzone.com/links/progress_buy_a_bridge_in_brooklyn_savvion_brms_an.html>
http://digg.com/news/technology/drools_progress_buy_a_bridge_in_brooklyn_savvion_brms_and_make_del_boy_trotter_proud

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.

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 :)

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 :)


Mark - The Mischievous Lead
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