Bruce,
> Interestingly, in trying to think of a visible open source project that
> isn't controlled by a company, I couldn't think of one. Mozilla, PHP,
> Apache, MySQL, even perhaps Linux have one very visible company that has
> significant control over the project, while we do not. Is there a good
> example someone can think of?
Perl, amanda, Python, OpenACS and LTSP come to mind.
I also get the impression that there's been a significant split between Zend
Inc. and the larger PHP community lately (over Parrot, mostly, I think), so
Zend obviously don't "control" the PHP project.
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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco