Thank you, very informative.
But don't you think it only right that these people get paid for the work? I mean the
ISP using APACHE is making money from it because it is the backbone of the business.
Satisfaction at seeing your creation used is nice, but it doesn't put bread on the
table.
Maybe I'm just too much of a capitalist, but I see so many people get paid for doing
nothing, it's a shame to not see somebody compensated for good work.
Sincerely,
Jim Ryan
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From: Jeffry Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:24:24 -0400 (EDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Free software in business (was maddog speaks)
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, jim t.p. ryan wrote:
> Derek,
>
> I'm still confused. How was sendmail and Apache originally created? What do those
>people do for a living? How do they make their money? I'm not being a wise guy
>here, I really want to understand how software would work in a completly open source
>world. I mean if I'm a programmer by trade and I want to feed my family how do I do
>it in this model? Maybe I'm being overly simplistic but I like the concept, I just
>don't fully get it.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jim Ryan
>
>
>From the apache website, about Apache:
http://www.apache.org/ABOUT_APACHE.html
Using NCSA httpd 1.3 as a base, we added all of the published bug
fixes and worthwhile enhancements we could find, tested the result on
our own
servers, and made the first official public release (0.6.2) of the
Apache server in April 1995. By coincidence, NCSA restarted their own
development
during the same period, and Brandon Long and Beth Frank of the NCSA
Server Development Team joined the list in March as honorary members
so
that the two projects could share ideas and fixes.
The early Apache server was a big hit, but we all knew that the
codebase needed a general overhaul and redesign. During May-June 1995,
while Rob
Hartill and the rest of the group focused on implementing new features
for 0.7.x (like pre-forked child processes) and supporting the rapidly
growing
Apache user community, Robert Thau designed a new server architecture
(code-named Shambhala) which included a modular structure and API for
better extensibility, pool-based memory allocation, and an adaptive
pre-forking process model. The group switched to this new server base
in July and
added the features from 0.7.x, resulting in Apache 0.8.8 (and its
brethren) in August.
After extensive beta testing, many ports to obscure platforms, a new
set of documentation (by David Robinson), and the addition of many
features in
the form of our standard modules, Apache 1.0 was released on December
1, 1995.
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Basically, they created apache because they wanted to fix NCSA's web
server, then they took the patches, and created a new server that was
"a patchy server" - thus the name.
Remember that some 80% of all programmers do NOT work in the software
industry. Instead, they work at companies like Fidelity, Bank Boston
/ Fleet Bank, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, etc; doing customization
and custom code to support various business problems. Under Open
Source, they'll still do that, except that they'll have more tools
because of the sharing.
jeff
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Thought for today: Once it hits the fan, the only rational choice is to sweep it up,
package it,
and sell it as fertilizer.
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