Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are NOT two entirely separate entities. According to financial information (see [1] of 2016 Yahoo! held/holds 25.6% of the companies shares. In some areas that is enough to constitute directional power. Maybe, in this case, there are enough Chinese walls between the two entities to consider the two separate. We'll probably never know...
Another aspect that might be more worrying is the recent deal between Verizon and Yahoo! regarding the sale of the internet activities of Yahoo! to Verizon. I wonder what the effect of this transaction will be on the parties from Yahoo! intended to participate in this project. If the changes mean that the parties now listed with Yahoo! won't be paid to do development work on the product of the incubating project, this could mean that the project loses more than half of initial contributor/committer base. [1] https://about.yahoo.co.jp/ir/en/holder/status.html Best regards, Pierre Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com> OFBiz based solutions & services OFBiz Extensions Marketplace http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/ On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > On Apr 27, 2017, at 11:41 AM, Bryan Call <bc...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Having a lot of Yahoo employees on the Traffic Server Proposal back in > 2009 > > was also a concern. This is something we were able to easily overcome in > > incubation. Building a healthy diverse community is one of the > project's top > > priorities. > > > It’s worth pointing out that Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan are two entirely > separate entities, so the project already has two large organizations > backing the project, and a few others as well. I see no real issue here > with diversity. > > Cheers, > > — Leif > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
