Jeff Stuart wrote: > > Roy, however, I do think that there is an implied responsibility for > apache since so much of the Internet USES it.
Gaining market share has never been one of our goals. Producing quality software has. That so many people have decided to benefit from our work does not, and should not, shape our activities. It speaks for the quality of the work we do -- but we didn't do it for their benefit. It is just simply not on to expect us to change our goals, philosophy, and activities because of the opinions of users we never sought. To even ask it could be considered insulting. > IMNSHO the Apache community is NOT just the developers. No, but it is the developers, and solely the developers, who decide on what they want to work. Not some faceless mass of users. > IMNSHO when I write a program even if it's for one other > person, I have a responsibility to that person to maintain > it and fix the bugs in it that crop up. And therein lies the flaw in your argument. We don't develop Apache for anyone else, and hence there is no responsibility to anyone else. Others may benefit from our work, but that's coincidental. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"