Alex McLintock at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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?
Nothing, but from a community standpoint, the ASF would rather incorporate projects that are not backed up by a self-sustained open-development community... Look at our last addition, Log4J, it was an IBM project, they dumped it, Ceki forked it, build an open-source community around it, and then we "inglobated" it under Jakarta (and it was a good addition)... I actually don't care about the code... The code could be the crappies one ever, but if the community behind it is good, it gets my preference over a magnificent piece of code with a non-existent or screwed community... Pier --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]