Re: answer to Howard or State of the POI (WAS: Re: Jakarta-POI 1.10.0-devreleased)

2003-03-05 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I don't think this is an attitude we want to promote. Unless I've been hoodwinked, the purpose of Apache (sub)projects is not to put companies out of business. It may be an unfortunate and unintended side-effect, but not a motivating goal or metric for success. Your statement about causing Mic

answer to Howard or State of the POI (WAS: Re: Jakarta-POI 1.10.0-devreleased)

2003-03-04 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
This is going to be another one of my long answers to a short question... I don't really attempt to measure this. It would be trivial to measure the number of downloads from the access logs; however, I prefer to mesure it subjectively. Note that its documented on the Jakarta site that Opensou