Is SpringSource Leaving Open-Source World?
Due to SpringSource announcement regarding the new and much debuted release policy, the community began stirring some serious mud up to the surface. Does the fact that Spring users will have to pay for enterprise subscription in order to get orderly released subversions mean that the sweetet library to come around Java development in the past few years have gone bad, possessed by evil moneymaking tyrans? Depends who you'd ask. Craig-Habuma-Walls thinks it's all legit business. Others think not, starting from minor criticism of the differentiation policy up to total betrail accusations. What does this mean regarding us users? How will it affect the adoption of Spring in the future? What are the unpleasent messages towards the cmmunity, communicated via this move? Read all about it!
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there's an effort to offer spring builds to the community at http://www.freespring.org/
very interesting, thanks!
I think that this is quite a unique turn of events, first Spring's decision to cut of some vital community resources and now this - the community strikes back. The Spring guys have gone too far, I feel, and if I were them, I'd sure hope that this initiative will succeed; otherwise they are doomed to be gone and forgotten, with time. Anyway Spring Framework isn't much of a runtime environment as it is a bunch of successful stateless patterns combined with service abstraction and aop voodoo that's too complicated to use for many - definitely not something companies can't live without. Besides, i think this is a bad timing for this kind of move, with the new DM server out they need all the community support they can get...