> At the moment, I can't think of any "really successful open source projects" that didn't have their origins with "a network of partly-funded enthusiast contributors" where the originator didn't have some form of organizational home and/or a funding stream for the first few releases of the software.
> Now, if anybody has a good example of a more grass roots project that has survived - please, some examples would be a great contribution to this discussion. It has gone through some major changes, but GeoTools might fit into the surviver without initial funding class of OSS and it's FOSS4G too :-) Best wishes, Andy http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss