Companies paying into Foundations which own the IP under an Apache license is becoming a relatively well-tested pattern these days. The Linux Foundation provid

Companies paying into Foundations which own the IP under an Apache license is becoming a relatively well-tested pattern these days. The Linux Foundation provides "Foundation as a Service" to several of these. I work for Pivotal, so I'm most familiar with the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which is administered by the Linux Foundation on behalf of members. From what I can see, it's a smooth way to offload the administrative stuff to specialists while retaining the core openness.