I'm not sure http-dev is the place to flam ASF and its commiters.
I don't think it was Peter's intention to flame anyone. The ASF has done a great job to deliver a fantastic, widely-deployed webserver. Consindering though that Apache 2 is mostly a refactored 1.3.x, which
doesn't provide anything spectacularly new. Yes improved X and better Y,
but hey, it still is a webserver and it doesn't make coffee for you.
If I can get my name into the headlines [1] when writing Java-Stuff, hell, then I'll do it.
Read "The Cathedral & The Bazaar" from ESR [2]. It provides a good insight into the social structures of the "community": motivations, incentives, .. It's not always the money, you know ;) Market share? Who cares! Customers? Who cares! I want my name to be a three letter acronym everyone recognizes! RMS? ESR?
[1] http://apache.slashdot.org/apache/03/11/10/2057218.shtml http://www.theserverside.com/home/thread.jsp?thread_id=22337
[2] http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cathbazpaper/
-daniel
