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The Apache foundation is turning out to be where large companies send their projects that they acquired through acquisition and never really loved or understood

The Apache foundation is turning out to be where large companies send their projects that they acquired through acquisition and never really loved or understood to die. It's kind of the old folks home of the software industry.

bad_user 15y ago
Only if Oracle donated Java or MySQL to Apache, maybe with a change of license like they did for OpenOffice - now that would be something.
- koko775 15y ago
  And would never happen. Oracle has a huge vested interest in controlling arguably the most successful universal language and vm platform in the world. As fantastic as it would be for it to happen, imagining a multibillion dollar company managed like Oracle giving away that much value for free isn't just wishful thinking, it's delusional.
  - icefox 15y ago
    I think he was making a joke about how if Java was donated then we all would know that Java really is dying.
nl 15y ago
You mean like Hadoop and Thrift and Solr and Cassandra?