On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanj...@opensource.lk> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > >> > I've been asking for reasons since my first e-mail to this list, but you >> > didn't reply so far. So, if you could elaborate on that, I'd really >> > appreciate that. >> >> I can tell you that those decisions are made above Rob's and my pay >> grades. Way above. >> > > Sam you out of all people know that the pay grade theory is useless here. I > too know that IBM decisions are made at a pay grade that probably doesn't > know what a mailing list is ... but the ASF is a different beast and you > can't negotiate with the ASF in a board room or on conference calls. Need to > make the case here.
The original question seems to have been lost. It was *IBM*'s reasons. > I attempted to guess IBM strategy in this in my previous mail. > > Sanjiva. > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Director & Chief Scientist; Lanka Software Foundation; > http://www.opensource.lk/ > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2; http://wso2.com/ > Founder & Director; Thinkcube Systems; http://www.thinkcube.com/ > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > Visiting Lecturer; University of Moratuwa; http://www.cse.mrt.ac.lk/ > > Blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
