ahhh, thats what these take overs ,... 'funding'

Story: Funding key to Open Source success, Ellison saysTotal Replies: 1
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number6x

Mar 03, 2006
2:05 AM EDT
Come on Larry, we don't believe your spin. Of course you may actually believe it yourself.

Yes Larry, thats how Apache became the dominant web server platform. Through the massive amount of corporate and venture capital funding it raised.

:)

Oh wait a minute, sorry. Apache did it through the work of volunteers.
Rascalson

Mar 03, 2006
5:03 AM EDT
There are volunteers that volunteer their "personal" time and then there are "companies" that "volunteer" the paid time of their employees. I'm sure Apache has had some of each.

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