On Mar 20, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Bill Barker wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Jagielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <general@jakarta.apache.org> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [draft] SD Magazine: request for change
Henri Yandell wrote:
It may be that leading contributor is, while not an 'Apache Way' to
discuss something, a completely true piece of investigative journalism.
There are definitely parts of Commons where a little bit of investigation
could point out that "Yes, on DBUtils 1.0, David Graham was the lead
developer" (Sorry David :) ).
That may be true, but certainly we do have the right and responsibility
to ensure that our desires, as far as how we run and represent ourselves,
is accurate as well.
It has always been a major foundation of the ASF that projects are built and developed by communities, not individuals. Terms such as "lead" or "main" do cause harm to the community and have always been actively avoided.
And, yet, all of the complaints about the article have been from people that aren't involved with Tomcat development ;-).
I don't think that's very fair. The ASF spends considerable time protecting it's IP, including trademarks, for all projects.
Just imagine if you read about "Sun Tomcat" or "IBM Tomcat" or you read that "Microsoft controls 45% of Tomcat" ;)
geir
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