Comments on: Free as in community….. http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/free_as_in_community Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:19:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Garrett http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/free_as_in_community#comment-56 Garrett Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:39:36 +0000 http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/free_as_in_community#comment-56 Actually, FWIW it looks like the ASF was founded before the FreeBSD Foundation. The ASF in 1999, and it looks like the FreeBSD Foundation first started operating sometime in 2001, although it's hard to tell because the Articles of Incorporation on their website don't actually have the date field filled in. I'm not sure if there were any open source projects that had associated foundations back in 1999, but if there were any to inspire the ASF it certainly wasn't FreeBSD. Actually, FWIW it looks like the ASF was founded before the FreeBSD Foundation. The ASF in 1999, and it looks like the FreeBSD Foundation first started operating sometime in 2001, although it’s hard to tell because the Articles of Incorporation on their website don’t actually have the date field filled in. I’m not sure if there were any open source projects that had associated foundations back in 1999, but if there were any to inspire the ASF it certainly wasn’t FreeBSD.

]]> By: Steve Heath http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/free_as_in_community#comment-55 Steve Heath Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:51:43 +0000 http://blog.generationjava.com/roller/bayard/entry/free_as_in_community#comment-55 (like the special edition pharagraph, probably best tho') I take the point about, "a bunch of friends, a community does not make". Does sound like the community support tools at Apache are not quite adequate yet.. something doesn't seem quite joined up there. You did miss one point tho'.. "change".. Apache has changed a lot since it was just the httpd, it has changed since Jakarta meant Tomcat + Ant and changed in the time since you became heavily involved (to my observations). Change has remained something that Apache and OSS (OSC?) generally cope with relatively well.. (like the special edition pharagraph, probably best tho’)

I take the point about, “a bunch of friends, a community does not make”.

Does sound like the community support tools at Apache are not quite adequate yet.. something doesn’t seem quite joined up there.

You did miss one point tho’.. “change”.. Apache has changed a lot since it was just the httpd, it has changed since Jakarta meant Tomcat + Ant and changed in the time since you became heavily involved (to my observations). Change has remained something that Apache and OSS (OSC?) generally cope with relatively well..

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