Very well put.
The value of software - especially ebXML & other 'coordination' technologies - is not that it is available but that it is deployed, and that takes a community.
mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefano Mazzocchi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: Re: [POLL] ebXML Reg./Rep. on Apache?
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>
> This said, it is important for you to understand that we at
> Apache don't
> value software but value the community of users and developers behind
> it.
>
> For this reason, it doesn't make much sense to us to accept a software
> donation if this doesn't help the establishment of a
> community around it
> to further enhance the software and, doing so, influence the design of
> the standards that it is based on.
>
> I hope you understand this is a vital point for us: a
> software without a
> community is dead even if you have the source available.
> Opening up the
> source code doesn't make a project successuful, it takes much more and
> we don't have the energy to help making successful every closed-source
> project, it must come here already healthy enough to stand on
> its feet.
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