There’s a major open-source Java server project called JBoss. JBoss now has a corporation behind it; the CEO of said corporation is Marc Fleury. Marc is trying to tightly control everything related to JBoss; he wants his corporation to be the sole source of JBoss consulting, documentation, training, etc. That way he can make some money off his open-source product. But it’s open-source, so anyone can do that, and others do try.
Well, apparently at one point in time (about 15-18 months ago) someone was looking at writing a JBoss book, and got into a heated argument about it with Fleury about it. Fleury was opposed. His exact email quote, which has now been published for all the web to see: “YOU WANT TO FUCK ME OVER BY WRITING A BOOK ABOUT MY STUFF WHERE WE GET ZERO DOLLARS I WILL MAKE WE DESTROY YOU SO MUCH YOU NEVER THE LIGHT OF DAY AGAIN.”
And this guy’s allowed to run a software company?!? 