RE: Did IBM Hijack Apache????

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Shannon O'Donnell
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 3:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Did IBM Hijack Apache????

>iSeries Specific strategy:

>- Port to the iSEries ILE environment
>- Provied equivalent function to the existing HTTP Server for iSeries
>(original HTTP SErver)
>- Add iSeries integration (user profile, SSL, validation list, LDAP,
etc...)
>- Eventually replace HTTP Server for iSEries
>- Source code initially comes from ASF
>- Then we add the iSeries customization
>- Then we subject it to iSEries development and test processes


thanks Shannon.

you dont have to respond, but from the way I read your notes, all the IBM
customization to the apache open source code is not open source. I am not
surprised but it does disappoint.  Products like apache and the rpg compiler
should all be open source.  IBM loses no revenue ( open source, not free
source ) and since the customer would gain by being able to customize the
products, IBM would actually grow revenue as the satisfied customer brings
more business to IBM.

Steve Richter