| > Software history is replete with creation of new "economic tiers". Even | > "open-source" has it's GPL, BSD and countless other camplets. If an | > existing organization can't serve multiple audiences, is there room and | > reason for a supplemental one? | > | | You mean is there room for the crap JCP? Apparently. . People also | continue to run IIS... They just don't yet know any better ;-)
Risk is also a function of what your peers are doing. One can know of better options and choose not de-link themselves from the actuarial (financial) safety of a standard. You know that whatever happens to you will happen to the others equally. This predictability is as much a form of community as transparency of code and process. Common pain is no less common because it's pain, rumors of common pleasure not withstanding. | Or you mean an OpenSoftwareStandards.org? No and Yes. Apache already has an earned and defensible position at the boundary of open and closed cooperation, with neighbors like FSF and JCP. There are market gaps for small, code-distributed standards in both geo-regional and skill-vertical industries. Something like: NonAntitrustVendorStandardsForBiggerOpenMarketsAndFood.org | Andy Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
