Apache VP makes excuses for proprietary software

AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW has tipped up on The INQUIRER's sister IT news web site V3.co.uk.

An Apache Software Foundation VP defends its ambivalence about enabling some proprietary software companies to encroach upon and subvert free and open source software (FOSS) communities and, in some licensing circumstances, acquire contributed software for private profit in proprietary software products.

Ross Gardler, VP of community at the Apache Software Foundation reveals what he really thinks of FOSS developers in the article "Open source movement sheds hippy image in battle for corporate mindshare". You can read it there and see what you think. µ