RE: iSeries apache is not open source?? was : Did IBMHijackApache????

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| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Martin Rowe


| but authors are free
| to license as they wish (and so it should be).

Well, in theory...  In practice, many authors of innovative software aren't
even free to write and publish code, because of the (im)practical economics
of "free" software.

No market, because people will steal ideas not intended to be given away,
given the chance...  And also because many will settle for "crap" that's
free than pay for something similar of value.  (Not just authors of
software, btw, but authors of books, music, movies, etc...)  I would settle
for that "bug in the system" being fixed.

| I would suspect that IBM do feed back some of their changes to the
| Apache software foundation, even if we don't get the code ourselves. As
| IBM will have to port their changes to each version of Apache as it
| comes out (to keep in sync) it would make sense to keep those changes to
| a minimum. Of course this is speculation on my part ;)

>From what I've heard, and I didn't read the "Hijacking" article, there's no
speculation about how much IBM is contributing to core Apache code.  I dunno
if this article points to the possible problems involved with IBM
"over-contributing" resources.