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So the assumption is that IBM has taken the apache open source code, added iSeries specific code to it, and is shipping iSeries Apache without releasing the source code back to the public domain. Isnt that unethical? The spirit of the open source movement is that people make their source code available so that others can improve on it and in turn give the improved code back to the open source community. fwiw, I am not too keen on open source because in practice it becomes free source. But the free aspect does not pertain to IBM in this case. Apache is shipped no charge as part of os400. Source or no source. And if iSeries apache is closed source, IBM is also detracting from the Apache brand name that it is benefiting from. The marketplace trusts apache to be rock solid and portable because of its open source nature. If iSeries apache is not open source then that claim is no longer true. Steve Richter
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