Costin Manolache wrote:
> 
> Danny Angus wrote:
> 
> > ... the issue is *only* that
> > "The Apache Jakarta Project and leading Tomcat contributor JBoss"
> > implys that JBOSS is not only a contributor, but *the* major contributor.
> 
> 
> Fact is that JBoss is _a_ major contributor to tomcat. So is any company 
> that have committers working full time - in any project.
> ( in addition the architecture of tomcat5 is based on jboss jmx model, 
> and that's _a_ major contribution as well )
> 
> Sun is also _a_ major contributor to tomcat. So is any other company 
> that is funding tomcat developers. Code is written by people, but 
> companies like JBoss or Sun are actually paying the bills. Of course, a 
> lot of credit must go to people who manage to cut hours from their 
> families and free time.
> 

++1!

> "Leading contributor" does not imply the only contributor or the only 
> leading contributor.
> 

lead: ; leading:
  1. To guide on a way
  2. live (~ a quiet life)
  3. to direct the operations, activity, or performance of,
  4. to go at the head of; be first


No, leading does not imply sole or only, but it *does* imply
the sense of being first or the most significant, esp how
it was written.
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