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From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
Subject: Re: Competing projects was Re: [VOTE] Incubate new podling,
 "River" (nee Braintree, nee..., nee Jini)
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:41:53 -0500
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On Dec 22, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:

> On 12/22/06, Jim Jagielski <jim@jagunet.com> wrote:
>> A simple one-liner similar to Geir's "No other ASF project
>> or podling in the architecture space is based on Jini"
>> is enough I think...
>
> This is getting off-topic, but really why do we care?
>

We don't. As I've said many times, having competing projects
IS good. All I've said is that when proposals come in they
should simply acknowledge it and mention how/why they are
different.

> We have lots of competing proposals and projects all across the ASF.
> And, many of them don't communicate for extremely petty and personal
> reasons; some don't communicate because they disagree on the technical
> direction.
>
> If there's a community around *this* proposal, that's all that I care
> about.  -- justin
>


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