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Is Apache becoming a graveyard for dead or dying projects? First OpenOffice and now Google Wave. What's their reasoning behind these moves? Both Wave and OO.o
by andrewl-hn 15y ago
Is Apache becoming a graveyard for dead or dying projects? First OpenOffice and now Google Wave. What's their reasoning behind these moves?
Both Wave and OO.o are fairy complex projects and I'm afraid that the pace of their development will suffer severely without a strong company backing.
- JoachimSchipper 15y agoI think the reasoning is that Apache is about the only place where you have a strong open-source community that is acceptable to/has experience with "the enterprise" (see: their various Java projects).
- Gorbzel 15y agoExactly? Wave, OpenSocial, OpenOffice: a bunch of great open ideas that never got support from their original corporate overlords. So they're dumped into the Apache Incubator, where they die a slow death. It's really a shame. I remember investigating a project that would have solved a big need I had at the time, but was worried about a couple of bugs. I remember almost going with it, since I had faith that an Apache-backed product wouldn't langish. 18 months later still no commits.