Jim Jagielski wrote:
In other words, if the corporate support of the project or podling went away, would they stop developing and working on the codebase because they, after all, had no allegiance in the code at all? Were they, in effect, coders-for-hire?
Yes, this is a known risk, perhaps the largest risk for Pig's incubation. We must develop a diverse developer community so the project can survive the departure of any employer or individual. Yahoo! is aware of this, and seeks non-Yahoo! developers. This is the primary motivation to incubate. If Yahoo! wished to develop Pig alone, then it could simply continue to distribute it under a BSD license.
And, yes, some developers may stop contributing when they change employment. But, in my experience, many others will be hired specifically for their experience with an Apache project. I see more careers built around Apache experience than short-term coders-for-hire. Today Yahoo! is hiring folks to work on Pig. Soon, hopefully, other companies will do so as well, if they're not already. There's no shame in being paid to work on Apache projects, is there?
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