"Andrew C. Oliver" wrote: > Thats very high minded and a great mission statement in many respects. > I still say adding unity-of-purpose to Jakarta and creating some more > user-minded-distributions of things would be helpful from a user > perspective.
If creating more user-minded-distributions is something a developer enjoys, then that's what a developer should do. The developers are creating software that meets their needs, and freely sharing it with others. But those others don't drive the development process. The developers do. A commercial enterprise may have the goal of winning the most users, since users contribute to the development process through the payment of fees. But I do not see that as the goal of Apache Projects. If (in some impossible way) our software were inferior, and our developers miserable, then Apache would be a failure no matter how many people used the software. What is amazing is that Apache Projects have so many users, without spending a single dime on marketing, or payroll, or anything but a development and distribution infrastructure. -- Ted Husted, Husted dot Com, Fairport NY USA. -- Building Java web applications with Struts. -- Tel +1 585 737-3463. -- Web http://www.husted.com/struts/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
