Highlights of Greg Stein's keynote

March 22, 2006

Some highlights from Greg Stein's keynote

The Apache Way

Communities first, code second

Communities over individuals

Apache central to Open Source work but Eclipse is also gravitating to the center

The license trend is going to the bottom

 Proprietary
  |
  v
 Restricted
  |
  v
 Copyleft (GPL, EPL)
  |
  v
 Non-copyleft (APL, BSD)

I found it quite interesting to see how Apache is organized and how Eclipse compares to it.

For now, there is few overlaps between Apache and Eclipse communities but it has already started.
For example, both communities now offer an OSGi implementation:

Equinox for Eclipse
Felix for Apache (in the incubator)

It it going to be interesting to see where things are going...