On Mar 25, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> On Sunday 25 March 2007 22:51, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>> I guess I gotta ask - what community disaster? Was there ever a
>> JBoss community distinct from the company?
>
> Well, yes. Rickard Oberg (for instance) was part of the founding
> group of what
> was initially known as EJBoss (EJB Open Source Software, I
> presume), and he
> (and others) declined the offer to become a JBoss Inc employees,
> and was
> suddenly not allowed to use the JBoss name in any type of marketing
> or other
> claims.
> IIRC, the Geronimo project was a result of the JBoss community
> turmoil, and I
> am sure people like Dain can chip in a lot more details than I can.
Maybe. There were commercial considerations as well, don't forget.
>
> Search TSS for Rickard's name, and see the attempted character
> assassination
> of the poor fellow. JBoss Inc has of course denied all allegation
> that Marc
> Fleury, Bill Burke and others used aliases in that affair... There
> are plenty
> of evidence that they did.
I'm familiar with what happened there. But that's independent of the
trademark issue you bring up..
>
> Now, you can also read up more at Rickard's site;
> http://thejbossissue.blogspot.com/
>
>
> Cheers
> Niclas
>
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