It's official: JBoss has no sense of humour
Well well well, looks like my IMAGINARY Marc Fluery interview greatly ruffled some feathers. Imagine my dismay as I get an email from none other than his better half (Nathalie Fleury) asking me to edit the interview and add the word IMAGINARY to the title so people don’t mistake it for a real interview. According to Mrs Fleury, some of them actually think Marc wrote that stuff and are now indignantly writing back to us.
Amusingly, at the same time I get an email from Rickard blessing my proposed IMAGINARY interview with him. Based on those two facts and nothing else, it’s clear who the good and bad guys are in the Rickard/Fleury saga.
How incredibly stupid do you have to be to think it’s a real interview? Or is it something else, the Fleury clan just getting their panties in a twist over such a disturbingly accurate interview? I suppose an argument could be made that it isn’t really satire as it’s too much like the real thing.
So, for all you asshats who think that the interviews were professionally conducted, or with real people, let me reassure you that this is not the case. All interviews posted here (especially with any Fleury clan members) are IMAGINARY (happy Nathalie?). Fictitious. Lies. Made up. Invented. Contrived. Mostly though, they’re IMAGINARY. This disclaimer will apply to all past and future interviews.
Now, regardless of what a great product JBoss is (or not), I really hope that some of you JBoss hive members have to at least acknowledge that it’s a skanky thing to do. Of all the people and products that have been biled over the last couple of months, I’ve never had anyone request a retraction or back-dated modification. It’s a cheap attempt that is more likely than not to backfire. Shame on you Fleurys. For all your talk of challenging the big guys, and their desire to silence you, one would think that the last thing you’d want to do is behave as they do towards others.
August 29th, 2003 at 11:25 am
Yeah, the last thing I wanna do is act like the groups that are making money. I wanna act like the people who’re homeless. That is cool.
August 29th, 2003 at 11:26 am
Ever wonder what Hani really does for a living?
http://www.discovertheworld.com/worldwide/europe/jordan/about/main.asp
August 29th, 2003 at 11:38 am
I guess Mrs Fleury failed the Turing test.
August 29th, 2003 at 3:58 pm
Hani, you are far too modest. Next to you, JBoss people are but amateurs, who could learn from someone as accomplished as yourself… who receives emails from no less than Rickard Oberg and Marc Fleuy’s wife.
Forget “the network is the computer.” “The insult is the product,” now that’s a slogan. To have eliminated the messy and superfluous middle step of writing software–a worthy accomplishment. In fact, sort of open-sourcey too. Gartner and Forrester, not to mention the psychological and dominatrix profession must be quite up in arms.
Of course, the true test is to productize your line, add some flashy graphics, online picture, sell some related services.
Until then, we applaud the selfless purist,
August 29th, 2003 at 5:32 pm
Hani,
You unique writing style shines through on your IMAGINARY Nathalie Mason-Fleury post.
August 30th, 2003 at 2:35 am
Hani, Nathalie might have a point. I think it’s time for you to get the crayons out.
September 1st, 2003 at 4:43 am
> Ever wonder what Hani really does for a living?
http://www.formicary.net/site/search/itemview.jsp?type=user&mid=hani
IT Help Desk – tee hee hee. No wonder he is so full of bile. Life keeps kicking him in the face every day at work. ;-)
September 1st, 2003 at 5:20 am
Working for the IT Helpdesk *Department* could mean just about anything.
September 6th, 2003 at 4:56 am
Having met MF in person I would not have put it passed him to say some of the stuff in the original interview… ;-)
Which is probably why so many others emailed and also why NF asked for the modifications… it just sounded too true ;-)
In the bext IMAGINARY interview you chould have hime say some nice things or that he offered to suck your dick… that would be funny ;-)