--- Ceki Gulcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Endre, > > Although Jon might not be the most politically-correct person around, > he is usually right. Jon is correct to observe that Jakarta is not a > dumping ground for .bomb projects.
Project X is written because it is useful to Company Y. Company Y attempts to market Project X because they think it is useful to others. Company Y decides they wont get enough money for Project X Company Y offers Project X to the Opensource community. What's wrong with that? Now of course it is right to question whether Apache Software Developers will find it useful enough to maintain the software. But how is Company Y to know unless it offers the software? Why should a piece of software be rejected by the opensource community just because it isn't commercially viable? PS Endre, There is no point in trying to get Jon to change his manners. Just ignore him when he is rude and listen to him quite closely when he is talking about software cause he is usually right. Alex ===== Alex McLintock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Consultancy in London OpenWeb Analysts Ltd, http://www.OWAL.co.uk/ --- SF and Computing Book News and Reviews: http://news.diversebooks.com/ Get Your XML T-Shirt <t-shirt/> at http://www.inversity.co.uk/ COMPETITION : http://news.diversebooks.com/article.pl?sid=01/10/08/1947255 ____________________________________________________________ Nokia Game is on again. Go to http://uk.yahoo.com/nokiagame/ and join the new all media adventure before November 3rd. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
