The safe answer is of course that it is both, and it's the answer I give...
If it was only a product, I would say it would be worth considerably less if there wasn't such a great community built around it... And if it was just a community I would say that is kind of pointless without a product at the core. So, I suppose you could count me as +1 on both sides :) But, if you aren't satisfied with the safe answer, I'd have to go with product. I work in a corporate environment. A community doesn't matter very much in such an environment (not to the higher-ups I mean), but a product most certainly does. A product implies accountability if something goes wrong. Of course that really isn't the case with Struts, although in a sense the community as a whole is accountable. Big companies like having someone to blame, so they tend to shy away from anything that isn't a product because there tends to not be anyone to blame then. Struts is kind of an exception, as I suppose any much-used OSS project is really... you accept to a degree that there really isn't accountability so to speak, except to a community. That's why OSS software, while it is gaining acceptance, is still not used as much as commercial software... the decision-makers in big companies are becoming more accepting as time goes by, but it is still hard for them to justify something that there isn't someone out there they can sue if something blows up. Struts seems to be one of the exceptions here. Ugh, mailing list, meet tangent :) -- Frank W. Zammetti Founder and Chief Software Architect Omnytex Technologies http://www.omnytex.com On Apr 10, 2005 6:55 AM, Ted Husted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *snip* > >> What do you say? Are we a product or a community? >> >> Here's my +1 for community. >> >> -Ted. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
