"Is it me or has Apache increasingly become the place open source projects of big companies go to die? OpenOffice, Geronimo, Harmony, Wave, etc.pp." It's just

"Is it me or has Apache increasingly become the place open source projects of big companies go to die? OpenOffice, Geronimo, Harmony, Wave, etc.pp." It's just you :) Seriously though, that is a mistaken impression, bolstered by people who have a vested interest in that impression. Instead, Apache is a place where large open source projects of big companies go to build an independent and healthy community around the project. Sometimes it doesn't work out, for numerous reasons, but most of the time the change is one of the best things to happen to the project.