Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact cocoon-dev-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 29699 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2000 05:51:54 -0000 Received: from lafontaine.cybercable.fr (212.198.0.202) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Jun 2000 05:51:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 2673754 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2000 05:51:54 -0000 Received: from r176m167.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO dyomedea.com) ([195.132.176.167]) (envelope-sender ) by lafontaine.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 10 Jun 2000 05:51:54 -0000 Message-ID: <3941D808.ACD7C78C@dyomedea.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:54:16 +0200 From: Eric van der Vlist X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cocoon-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: Infozone References: <2ECFE9456D0F6A4FA77B38C25AAE2309027E29@the.one.lv> <393FAAE3.DDE19668@apache.org> <39408B91.DC25D046@relativity.yi.org> <3940CA12.FD199C05@apache.org> <394156D0.DBF84BBC@relativity.yi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N burtonator wrote: > > The reason I think this applies to the Java/Server-side world is that if > you have a decent project, you should bring it under the ASF. In the > future most projects will be like this. There are certain exceptions of > course. I would like to see Lucene and EJBoss under the ASF. If you allow the view of an outside observer, I'd like to disagree here ;=) ... I think monopolies are as bad for open source as they are for "traditional" economies. I don't want to criticize any of the Apache projects for which I have great respect, but the fact that is that much more visible than represents a risk for open source. If wanted to start a new Cocoon framework, it would have to be technically so much better than Cocoon@apache.org that it's almost killing any possibility of competition. At the end of the day, I don't think it will be beneficial to the open source community if too many projects can "win" without having to be the best technically... MHO. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------