Re: On unity and coherence [was Re: [Request For Comment] POI@apache]

[Ted Husted <hu...@apache.org>]

"Andrew C. Oliver" wrote:
> Thats very high minded and a great mission statement in many respects.
> I still say adding unity-of-purpose to Jakarta and creating some more
> user-minded-distributions of things would be helpful from a user
> perspective.

If creating more user-minded-distributions is something a developer
enjoys, then that's what a developer should do. The developers are
creating software that meets their needs, and freely sharing it with
others. But those others don't drive the development process. The
developers do.

A commercial enterprise may have the goal of winning the most users,
since users contribute to the development process through the payment of
fees. But I do not see that as the goal of Apache Projects. If (in some
impossible way) our software were inferior, and our developers
miserable, then Apache would be a failure no matter how many people used
the software. 

What is amazing is that Apache Projects have so many users, without
spending a single dime on marketing, or payroll, or anything but a
development and distribution infrastructure. 

-- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA.
-- Building Java web applications with Struts.
-- Tel +1 585 737-3463.
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