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. -- =========================================================================== Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ "There 10 types of people: those who read binary and everyone else." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
