> Because it seems quite silly for Apache to sponsor two competing machine learning libraries with exactly the same goals. Apache is willing to provide a home

> Because it seems quite silly for Apache to sponsor two competing machine learning libraries with exactly the same goals. Apache is willing to provide a home for any community who abides by the Foundation's governance rules and traditions. It is acceptable to have competing projects, and there are many examples in the Foundation's history. Additionally, Apache doesn't "sponsor" projects per se -- no developers get paid through Apache. The Foundation spends what it takes to support projects, but the annual budget is tiny -- a little over a million each year, when there are ~200 projects and ~5000 committers.