Re: Did IBM Hijack Apache????

It is impossible to hijack it.  For starters, the work IBM is paying
developers to do, goes right back in the pool.

Second, so what if IBM is telling their own employees what to work on.  It
is their right.  If people think something else is a more important
component to work on, nothing is stopping them from working on it.

People bitch for the sake of bitching.   They cried to be taken seriously by
corporations and now they cry to be left alone.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shields, Ken" <kenshields@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:13 PM
Subject: RE: Did IBM Hijack Apache????


> Seems to me the small project groups within 'Open Source', leave
themselves open, to just that kind of activity.
> If the groups work was always mandated as belonging to the 'Open Source'
world, and no large corporation could
> buy into it, these kinds of activities wouldn't happen.
> How then can someone use the term 'hijack'?
> money talks and B$#@@&^%  walks...
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Shaw [mailto:mhshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 3:59 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Did IBM Hijack Apache????
>
>
> Folks,
>
> Bob Cringly's weekly column was just posted on the pbs web site.  He
> basically states that IBM hijacked Apache from Open Source.........
>
> "It is possible to hijack an Open Source project since any Open Source
> team will automatically bend itself around the party doing the most
> work. What I find most interesting, however, is applying varying motives
> to the hijacking. What if Microsoft, for example, suddenly started
> devoting a lot of resources to Open Source development? They could throw
> a team at all the key projects. But why would they do that? Well, IBM is
> already doing it. IBM has hired most of the Apache team. IBM has some
> major pull on what work gets done and does not get done. In some cases,
> it is frustrating, and other cases not. However, everybody just accepts
> it because IBM is paying the bills and people can do what they love. Is
> there an official IBM party line at Apache? Absolutely not! It is just
> that none of the Apache developers will talk negatively about IBM, even
> those that do not work at IBM. So in this sense, it already appears that
> Apache has been hijacked."
>
> Full article URL:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030424.html
>
> That a pretty bold statement!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Shaw
>
>
>
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