Peter S. Housel wrote:
Peter, Arved,"Arved Sandstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:Well, Java or C or C++ or Haskell, it would have been nice to have a clue. We have an ASF tradition of developing communities...this kind of stuffthatSun and IBM does is getting old. Don't open-source it; sell it. I willargueagainst its adoption into Apache.Googling for xmlroff yields: http://www.plurb.com/webservices/UBL4.pdf Looks like they want to donate it to Gnome, not Apache. Despite your not wanting to sound bitter, your protest still sounds bitter anyway.
In spite of Arved's protestations, I think he has reason to be bitter. I don't want to criticise a particular company, and especially not any particular individuals, but I think this incident underlines some endemic problems in the relationship between the corporate software world and the Open Source world. I am well aware of the enormous contributions to OSS of various corporations (Sun, IBM and Netscape spring immediately to mind.)
I think, however, that these problems extend right into the standards development process itself. I should like to ponder these issues a little longer, and then perhaps take them up in a wider forum.
Peter
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