Re: IBM pops bubble of open source business models

On 18 Jun 2005, at 06:00, Gregory Aharonian wrote:

> Case in point.  Forbes magazine online has a great article by one  
> of its
> writers, Daniel Lyons, reporting on how an open source company, JBoss,
> is SHOCKED and SURPRISED that IBM is attempting to crush and steal its
> market, after IBM has piped so many nice things about open source.

I really don't see where the contradiction lies between IBM liking  
Open Source from a business point of view (share the costs for  
infrastructure software development with others, differentiate  
yourself on other levels where it actually makes sense) and yet still  
trying to crush its competitors, nor what's wrong with "stealing" a  
market (they call that free competition over here, maybe that's  
different in Soviet Aharonian land? :)


Jonas