Ask Apache Software Chairman Greg Stein 117
Here's a man who obviously has his finger on the pulse of open source software development. I mean, who hasn't heard of Apache? His work history is interesting, too: He's moved from Microsoft to CollabNet to Google. And he's not shy about speaking his mind about open source, as shown in this ZDNet blog entry. Please try to confine yourself to one question per post. (If you have more than one question, post more than once.) We'll send 10 of the highest-moderated questions to Greg tomorrow and run his answers when we get them back.
untethered computing (Score:4, Interesting)
What are your thoughts on Apache's direction in regards to the new roaming AJAX desktops [slashdot.org] we keep hearing about -- what are some of the limitations you foresee in the overall untethered computing experience?
Kind Regards,
Scotty
Why Java? (Score:5, Interesting)
I use http but thats about it. I have looked at the other Apache software but always been offputting to have to set up Java with all the classpaths etc.
Whats wrong with C or C++? Its portable and easy to install and run.
This isnt a troll, although it might look like one....
Open Source (Score:2, Interesting)
Do you believe that open source projects should always remain in the public domain- ie. that no open source projects should turn commercial?
Why aren't more people using version 2 apache? (Score:1, Interesting)
Cleaned up for actual question (Score:5, Interesting)
-Rick
Open Source and Gaming (Score:5, Interesting)
After reading your homepage and following many of the links, it's obvious that you are a pretty solid game enthusiast -- from your work on MUDs, playing MTG in your younger years, to enjoyment of TES:Oblivion. Do you think that open-source software has a significant role to play in mass-market gaming? Do you think that opening the code of games would enhance game devlopment?
Critics (Score:4, Interesting)
Apache Live CD? (Score:2, Interesting)
what i'd like to see is a live bootable cd for a server that the first time you boot from it with a clean storage drive, it asks for setup preferences and writes those to the hard drive or flash drive.
on subsequent boots it reads those preferences from the hard drive and sets itself up automaticly.
Howe does it feel to (Score:3, Interesting)
What's your favorite scotch? (Score:2, Interesting)
What's in a name? (Score:2, Interesting)
Bloat and new competition. (Score:5, Interesting)
Policy on recognition in code contributions (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Why Java? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Why Java? (Score:3, Interesting)
Management (Score:5, Interesting)
We often read about managment problems with large software projects. The Apache web server is a large, well maintained and stable platform. This obviously didn't happen by accident but as a result of the team all knowing what they were supposed to do.
With this in mind, what are your personal top ten management do's and dont's with regard to large software projects?
Regards,
-ed
Segmented Servers (Score:4, Interesting)
-M
Slashdot proof Apache? (Score:1, Interesting)
After a while in load balance hell and writing ugly perl code to replicate sites dynamically I wonder if we will ever see
such a thing as a "distributed scalable web server"? Apache seems a very self contained, dare I say "brittle" monolith. Do you see scalability as a weakness and if not what is in the pipeline to handle sites that get a few hundred hits a month and then get suddenly get Slashdotted for a 24 hour period?
Why not improve Apache 2's usability? (Score:3, Interesting)
2.2 Win32 Binaries (Score:1, Interesting)
It seems like a much longer delay than in the past.
Is it because the code is being updated to compile under VC8? (a huge undertaking by the look of it) Is it because of the relatively buggy new version of InstallShield?
Is it related to the status of third party modules?
I managed to compile 2.2 with ssl on VC6 with a little effort, been running it on our site for over 3 months now, it seems just fine. I compiled recent php versions modules (thread safety, I know...) and eAccelerator to work with it. I managed to produce an acceptable msi installer package as well.
I'm curious as to why the long delay, I'm beginning to wonder if Apache may be discontinuing support for windows in future versions?
(aside: I also agree with other comments above that C is a zillion times more portable than java...)