I read the following quote via a link in The Silent Penguin:

That’s the problem with the licensing and the fact that there is no company. Apache, it’s a Web site. It’s a nonprofit organization. You’re not doing deals with someone; you’re doing deals with a Web site, to some degree. There is the Apache Software Foundation as a nonprofit, and I’m really cool with that. That’s a success. But is it the right structure for something as critical for infrastructure?

Right. Well, there are plenty of big companies who think that the ASF is a perfectly good structure for infrastructure ‘deals’. Oracle 9iAS bundles apache’s HTTPD, so does IBM.

Leaving aside JBoss Group’s history of bad behaviour towards contributors , having Marc criticising one of the biggest and most widely respected open source organisations in the world makes the company look nuts.

JBoss is a great product, and the company does some good things. However, seeing how scared Marc has become about the impending release of geronimo makes me think there must be something to it. Someone needs to reign him in a little.