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> Why is Apache taking these up / wasting time on them?

Presumably they get some funding in return. It makes $$$ sense for those entrusting if they have an established user base they no longer want to support.

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The discussions and rationale for accepting any and all projects is done on-list, on the public Incubator threads. There are no "side deals" or "arrangements" other that was is opening and publicly discussed. In any case, any sort of quid-pro-quo about funding is NOT part of the equation.

I didn't mean there were "side deals" I just presumed that funding for Apache came from somewhere and this is surely somewhat from the organisations that donate technology. To say it's NOT part of the equation is naive at best, disingenuous at worst. Money is ALWAYS part of the equation.

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