A couple of weeks ago SpringSource modified their maintenance policy. The change was a significant move in that it stripped non-paying users of certain perks (rights?), to the point of triggering arguments regarding what, exactly, constitutes an “open source” project.
In an attempt to find a balance between their open source roots and their commercial obligations, SpringSource made a mistake. They’ve now admitted it, and they’ve acted upon that knowledge. Kudos to them.
Back to work.
SpringSource Killing the Golden Goose? « A Public Scratchpad said,
October 7, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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Rod Johnson said,
October 8, 2008 at 5:57 am
Daniel
Thanks for the kind words!
We believe we have arrived at a good balance, where the open source community gets guaranteed access to all new Spring development (with binaries available), whereas enterprise customers have an additional motivation to subscribe to SpringSource Enterprise to get maintenance releases (for up to 3 years) on previous versions of Spring.
Thanks to you and all those in the community who shared their thoughts with us in the last 2 weeks.
Rgds
Rod