“Last week Brian Behlendorf, CTO of CollabNet, gave a one-hour
talk at a lunch-time meeting of the Austin Java Users Group
entitled ‘From Open Systems to Open Standards to Open Software: How
software development has changed over the past thirty years, and
what I should do in the next three.’ Behlendorf, one of the
original Apache crew and now a member of the board of directors of
the Apache Software Foundation, crammed into the session a history
of the Apache project and a Q&A session, during which he
covered topics ranging from the ‘competition’ between Bitkeeper and
Subversion, to the Apache Software Foundation’s take on the
Microsoft’s Sender ID license, to the offshoring of developer
jobs…”