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		blasdel on Nov 23, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apache considered harmful The ASF isn't where projects go to "grow up". It's mostly where companies like IBM go to dump their enterprisey Java frameworks so they can be marketed as ostensibly open to outside developers.

bergie on Nov 23, 2011 [–]

Nope, ASF actually provides and enforces a reasonable governance model for projects it adopts.

I wrote something on why this is important: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/open_source-free_software-what_we_...

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