On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Henri Gomez wrote:
> Paulo Silveira wrote: > > Sorry not giving a link the other time. Here is Apache voting against > > JSR 127 long time ago. > > In such case we could (should) understand ASF position. I can understand it if the ASF were worried that a JSR would put the existence of the OSS project in doubt, due to the legalities of an OSS project not being able to be a JSR implementation in some cases, but not to protect their product. > Why create something in official Java APIs/Products when > there is allready a good OSS alternative. To standardise it. Why is OSS any different? Why create an official Java API when there is an already good commercial product? > It still a shame that Sun didn't selected log4j for 1.4. Because it was quite arguably the de facto standard by the point the JSR was announced. > BTW, having multiple OSS competitors projects is a > good stimulation and could result in a later merge > (see TC3/TC4 => TC5). I'm not sure two versions of one project quite shows the example, but it is a good point. > Diversity is great. And forcing a lack of diversity merely prevents one set of possibilities happening. So +1 to diversity. Hen --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
