Exactly? Wave, OpenSocial, OpenOffice: a bunch of great open ideas that never got support from their original corporate overlords. So they're dumped into the A

Exactly? 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.