- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 03:39:04 -0700
- To: "Anne Thomas Manes" <anne@manes.net>
- Cc: <www-tag@w3.org>
I missed this directed question the first pass through:
On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 09:28 PM, Anne Thomas Manes wrote:
> I have a question for Roy:
> If you believe that SOAP is such "bad technology", why do you condone not
> one, but two, SOAP projects at Apache?
Two reasons:
1) Any technology, even a bad one, can be improved by open implementation
in a community forum; it may still be worse than some alternative, but
at least then you can compare them based on merit.
2) My official role in the Apache Software Foundation is to ensure that
our software is developed in an open, collaborative fashion and
legally
distributed as open source for the public benefit. If I were to use
my role as chairman to make technical decisions, I would be
contradicting the spirit of collaboration and the principles that
I insisted upon when creating the Foundation: all technical decisions
are made by the project committers.
I am not a committer on those projects. I don't even have enough bandwidth
available to read all of the developer mailing lists. That does not mean,
however, that I am incapable of reading the SOAP specs or that I do not
have an informed opinion on the technology. However, if anyone is going
to prove me wrong, it will most likely be another Apache developer.
Cheers,
Roy T. Fielding, Chairman, The Apache Software Foundation
(fielding@apache.org) <http://www.apache.org/>
Chief Scientist, Day Software
2 Corporate Plaza, Suite 150
Newport Beach, CA 92660-7929 fax:+1.949.644.5064
(roy.fielding@day.com) <http://www.day.com/>
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