Why is it sad? Isn't it par for the course with Apache Foundation ?
Why is it sad? Isn't it par for the course with Apache Foundation ?
Posted Jan 1, 2012 9:38 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: IBM by shmget
Parent article: The "White Label Office" release candidate
From the outsider's POV this is what ASF is all about.
Apache Group was concerned with creation of software which was usable on it's own (the infamous Apache HTTPD) and accompanying libraries for said software (Apache APR). Later it added side-projects (mod_jserv, mod_perl, mod_php) which were supposed to add functionality to these "central" project.
But at some point Apache Group transformed itself and become ASF as we know it: and almost from the very beginning ASF acted as "dumping ground" for the software which is mostly useless without proprietary components.
Frankly for the outsider the transformation was quite baffling (why anyone will drop what they are doing well and where they can drive their own destiny and willingly become flunkeys for various large corporations?), but hey, that's their choice.