Apache at 10: You Can't Buy Us
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November 5, 2009Money can't buy everything, especially when it comes to freely available open source software from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).
The ASF is now celebrating its 10th anniversary as a non-profit foundation that has grown from its initial project, the Apache HTTP Web Server, to more than 60 projects today.
The Apache HTTP Web Server remains the most widely deployed Web server today, with more than 42 million active sites, according to the latest data from research firm Netcraft.
At the ApacheCon conference today, pioneers of the ASF talked about their experiences at the trail-blazing open source foundation. They also outlined why the ASF remains relevant today, and why money doesn't buy many favors.
"Sometimes Apache has had a reputation of being hard to work with or slow to make decisions, and it's because we value independence and neutrality so strongly," said Brian Behlendorf, an ASF founding member. "When somebody sees that any given company can be a sponsor, they know that we can't be pwned at all."...
Source: Internetnews.com
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