"Weaver, Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02/12/2003 06:51:16 AM:
> Hi Martin, > > > I don't mean to be provocative here, but if Cornerstone is sufficiently > > general to warrant comparison with such frameworks as HiveMind, Spring and > > PicoContainer (which does appear to be the case, from the concepts paper > > and > > presentation), then why would you want to bury / hide it inside of > > Jetspeed? > > It can indeed stand alone. It is, Jun correct me if I'm wrong, becoming a > development standard at Cisco. Personally, I would love to see Cornerstone > become a Jakarta project or even a top level ASF project. In fact I > suggested this in the conference call David and I had with the Cisco developers. > > Cornerstone, "A History": > > Cisco donated 100% of the Cornerstone code base in working condition along > with a slew of J1 enhancements, a very kewl gesture on their part. David > (Sean Taylor) and I were given a great presentation by the Cisco developers, > they really had done their due diligence; on Cornerstone in particular. As > for legal issues, this was taken care of, at Cisco, through all the correct > legal channels as to avoid any IP issues. > > > then why would you want to bury / hide it inside of > > Jetspeed? > > We aren't "hiding" Cornerstone from anyone, more like shielding it, at least > temporarily, from the same ungodly bullsh*t that plagued Pluto. There are > certain elements in Jakarta that see every move by large companies (IBM, > Sun, etc.) to donate code/participate in open source as an attempt to hijack > control of open source projects or as a way to get a "free ride" from other > open source developers. I know this is certainly not the case with > Cornerstone nor was it the case with Pluto. Jetspeed 2's development was > severely stalled by these elements due to the fact that it is heavily > dependent on Pluto. I do not want to see the same thing happen again if > those "certain elements" in Jakarta get their panties in a twist over the > Cornerstone framework. I'm assuming there's nothing for them to get their panties in a twist about, unlike the HiveMind issues, right? -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://blogs.codehaus.org/people/dion/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
