If it was, they wouldn't be paying a dime for JBOSS, Red Hat would just be ripping off the JBOSS code and selling it without a dime back to JBOSS.
Well I guess if thats oyour view OpenSource is no longer communistic, afterall the guys who founded JBoss get 350 Million for their investment. Thank you for endorsing OpenSource software as capitalistic..
for a company that only brings in ~$50 million a year.
Yea and all they get for 350 Million (60% of it in stocks) is 50 Million a year and a product to compete with Weblogic and WebSphere... To that this purchase might not push more people running JBoss on Solaris, Windows or other operating systems to look at RedHat is foolish and the market agrees with me..
LOL, most open source zealots despise Marc Fleury from JBOSS simply because he wants to make a profit. From Linux Insider:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/49754.html
"Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates may be the most hated man in open source software circles, but Marc Fleury could come in a close second."
Said Fleury in his defense:
"I was desperate to make a living, and no one was paying for that. I am very proud to provide the best place to work for 60 developers and 30 absolute superstars, but that doesn't go without breaking eggs. When you make money and you talk about money, you're going to have some violent opinions thrown back to you. Linux was cute, because they have a penguin for a mascot. I don't make a very good mascot. If we had a possum, we wouldn't have any problem. From the get-go we did not expect anything except pure hate from these players, and that's what we get."