iSeries apache is not open source?? was : Did IBM Hijack Apache????

So the assumption is that IBM has taken the apache open source code, added
iSeries specific code to it, and is shipping iSeries Apache without
releasing the source code back to the public domain.

Isnt that unethical?  The spirit of the open source movement is that people
make their source code available so that others can improve on it and in
turn give the improved code back to the open source community.

fwiw, I am not too keen on open source because in practice it becomes free
source.  But the free aspect does not pertain to IBM in this case.  Apache
is shipped no charge as part of os400. Source or no source.

And if iSeries apache is closed source, IBM is also detracting from the
Apache brand name that it is benefiting from.   The marketplace trusts
apache to be rock solid and portable because of its open source nature.  If
iSeries apache is not open source then that claim is no longer true.

Steve Richter