Get three services for $100/moRed Hat-JBoss deal leads to blog scrubbing
On Monday, the outspoken Fleury had many kind words for Red Hat, referring to CEO Matthew Szulik and others as a 'big brother' for JBoss. A quick look back shows that Fleury's comments on Red Hat before the merger were not so kind, though you have to do some extra digging to find them.
One blog entry where Fleury weighs in on a war of words between Red Hat and Sun Microsystems executives is now blanked out.
The original text was preserved in Google's cache and by others.
In the September, 2004 blog, Fleury complains how Red Hat speaks for the open-source "community" at large, asserts that they aren't technically innovative, and that they create proprietary software.
"RH (Red Hat) is a packager, it doesn't create JACK, it doesn't create Linux, it wraps it up in proprietary s***. And no the contributions that they make don't really count. Linus Torvalds creates Linux," Fleury wrote.
"So to me both SUN and RH are open source "wannabes", or as one of my developers put 'open source girly men,'" he said later in the blog. Fleury also makes reference to a break-down in discussions between the two companies to form a business partnership.
Preserved more accessibly is a radio interview Fleury did with ZDNet on the topic of Red Hat. He again refers to the company as a "third-party packager and says, "Fundamentally Red Hat and JBoss have very different business models."
Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNET's Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Before that, he was executive editor at IT publication InfoWorld. E-mail Martin.
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