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From: Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>
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Subject: Re: New Avalon site Look in the making.
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 02:07:26 +0800
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On Friday 28 May 2004 03:58, Berin Loritsch wrote:

> I don't think it should be up for debate, after all we are an Apache
> hosted project.  We should pay homage to that in some respect.

This statement has been bothering me for a while, and I finally realized that 
your view is flawed. 

Does MSN pay "homage" to Microsoft?? Except for a similar "Copyright" notice 
at the bottom, no other apparent links to Microsoft. Why not? Same reason as 
why we don't need to pay "homage" to ASF.

We are not "ASF Hosted". We are "Part Of" ASF, i.e. we are ASF. We don't owe 
ASF anything, just like I don't owe myself anything.

This distinction is enormous.
ASF holds rights to the result of the work each individual do free of charge, 
or other benefits.

My conclusion, reading the by-laws, is that Avalon sets its own technical 
direction, of which the Look and Feel is one detail. And the biggest 'homage' 
we can make is to achieve a wider acceptance in the market place.


Cheers
Niclas
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