JBoss To Share Profits With Developers

An anonymous reader submits: "internetnews is reporting that JBoss has started distributing compensation in the form of profit-sharing and options to developers that worked on the application server. The article can be found here. I can't find the announcement on the JBoss site but it can be found on any number of release wires like newsalert."

path to profitability

[josephgrossberg]

1) Code free software ...
2) ... for the right project.
3) Profit! :)

Re:path to profitability

[miguel]

The `Miguel de Icaza' account is an impersonator, I do not know who it is. And his views have nothing to do with mine.

This is a shame, because that person has been flaming everywhere.

The slashdot admins have said that they can not do anything about it.

Miguel.

Move that makes sense

[LinuxXPHybrid]

Whether you like it or not, we live in a capitalism country (maybe some of slashdoters don't but probably most do). It means that whatever we do has to make sense financially in the end in order to thrive. We see that some of open source projects are thriving such as Linux, Apache, and JBoss(of course) but some are dying (if not they will soon because of the fact that they are not thriving financially). Projects like Linux and Apache can thrive and they can even be very profitable as companies like IBM,

Re:Move that makes sense

[ajeru]

The same is true by the way for commercial enterprises. Many of them have big financial problems and I think bigger ones than open source. Open source projects are more resilient because they can just slow down a bit in bad times and later revive. Commercial enterprises either work or they die.