According to Fleury, for open source to survive, its ecosysem must graduate to a food chain in which revenues from companies like Red Hat trickle down to the developers that feed the beast.
Right now, Fleury says, Red Hat selfishly looks for a free ride wherever it can get one. Meanwhile, he says, because JBoss understands the principles of paying its own way, it represents the second generation of open-source companies -- what he calls "professional open source."
Fleury wants to see Red Hat step up to the plate and refocus its priorities; if it doesn't, he believes that Novell will happily eat Red Hat's lunch. In this audiocast with ZDNet's David Berlind, Fleury takes no prisoners and holds no punches, as he lays out his vision for the open-source movement.
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What is this piece of drivel doing here? Red Hat has done more than anyone to pay F/OSS developers. Like Alan Cox, to name the most famous example. When Red Hat did their IPO, they gave shares to all the F/OSS developers they could find. No one made them do it, they just did it.
Mark Fleury is a well-known astro-turfer. If he had any sense he wouldn't still be shooting his mouth off, especially when he's wrong.
Suddenly Red Hat is the target du jour. Thank you ZDNet for mindlessly following the trend.