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?!? 
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Is there a word missing from that quote (like SURE) between MAKE and WE? Or did he really say “I WILL MAKE WE DESTROY YOU SO MUCH YOU NEVER THE LIGHT OF DAY AGAIN.”
No, that’s really the quote!
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