JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity

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JBoss Queries Apache Geronimo Code Similarity 293

Posted by simoniker on Monday November 10, 2003 @06:53PM from the tomahawks-at-dawn dept.

Kanagawa writes "This morning, Jim Jagielski, Exec. V.P. and Secretary of the Apache Software Foundation, announced on the geronimo-dev mailing list that 'the ASF received a letter from JBoss's lawyers regarding... the similarity of code between [J2EE implementation] Geronimo and JBoss.' The letter is available in PDF. According to the letter, similarities were noticed back in July, and haven't been fixed."

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Remember the old saying (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 10, 2003 @06:56PM (#7438477)

"Good programmer's copy, great programmer's steal!!"

meh.. I got nothing.

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Re:Any point? (Score:2, Funny)

by cscx ( 541332 ) writes: on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:04PM (#7438540) Homepage

On the same note, I guess it would be appropriate to ask the Gnome developers why Gnome needs five clocks... [gnome.org]

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One questoin (Score:5, Funny)

by TLouden ( 677335 ) writes: on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:06PM (#7438563)

Which one is SCO and which is IBM, I'm a little slow on this stuff.

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Just 5!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by DAldredge ( 2353 ) writes: <SlashdotEmail@GMail.Com> on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:08PM (#7438590) Journal

Damn, must make more GTK/Gnome clocks.

Bye!!!!

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Both Apache and JBoss have gone too far... (Score:3, Funny)

by ikkyikkyikkypikang ( 214791 ) writes: on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:11PM (#7438606)

In the example on page 8 of the letter you can see they are BOTH attempting to copyright the freaking SWITCH construct!

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This post (c) 2003, Knights who say Ni, LTD.

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There's an easy way out... (Score:2, Funny)

by stienman ( 51024 ) writes: <adavis&ubasics,com> on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:12PM (#7438622) Homepage Journal

For the next two months, JBoss will license portions of its code to Geronimo's developers and users for half off, only $699!

-Adam

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Re:Just 5!!! (Score:3, Funny)

by Jeremiah Cornelius ( 137 ) writes: on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:13PM (#7438644) Homepage Journal

I'm writing one in Ruby, and a BINARY clock in shell, awk and dd!

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Re:When lawyers present code in documents... (Score:2, Funny)

by Pakaran2 ( 138209 ) writes: <windrunner.gmail@com> on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:23PM (#7438739)

I can picture that, not having seen the code.

for(int c; c max; c++) if checkSomething(c) ... ;

and then your lawyers have claimed copyright on the entire function call - how lovely :)

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Bad Move! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:24PM (#7438751)

Umm... aren't you supposed to sue for gobs of money before you show the infringements? Don't they know how our legal system works?!

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Come back after the slash effect (Score:2, Funny)

by Tuross ( 18533 ) writes: <darthmdh&gmail,com> on Monday November 10, 2003 @07:29PM (#7438787) Homepage

I had never heard of Geronimo before, so I did the lemming thing and clicked on the link in the article and got the message in the subject. Now I'm not sure about you, but is it telling me that I should revisit their website after I feel relieved by urinating?

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Re:Who is going to sue me? (Score:2, Funny)

by stevey ( 64018 ) writes: on Monday November 10, 2003 @08:18PM (#7439324) Homepage

I would .. but in my version I spelt "somebody" correctly.

Still, following the principle of karmic balance I've misspelt a word or tow in this relpy.

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Re:Remember the old saying (Score:2, Funny)

by snake_dad ( 311844 ) writes: on Tuesday November 11, 2003 @04:10AM (#7442203) Homepage Journal

Ten monkeys, five hours.

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Remember the old saying (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Any point? (Score:2, Funny)

One questoin (Score:5, Funny)

Just 5!!! (Score:3, Funny)

Both Apache and JBoss have gone too far... (Score:3, Funny)

There's an easy way out... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Just 5!!! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:When lawyers present code in documents... (Score:2, Funny)

Bad Move! (Score:2, Funny)

Come back after the slash effect (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Who is going to sue me? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Remember the old saying (Score:2, Funny)

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