Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorf
Brian Behlendorfis a technologist, executive, computer programmer, and an important figure in the open-source software movement. He was a primary developer of the Apache Web server, the most popular web server software on the Internet, and a founding member of the Apache Group, which later became the Apache Software Foundation. Behlendorf served as President of the Foundation for three years. Behlendorf has served on the board of the Mozilla Foundation since 2003 , Benetech since 2009 and the Electronic Frontier...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth30 March 1973
CountryUnited States of America
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I don't get a chance to code any more.
And that is reassuring, to see people who are very positive - five years after the first explosion, the first release of code - is a very good thing.
The great thing about mod_rewrite is it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail. The downside to mod_rewrite is that it gives you all the configurability and flexibility of Sendmail.
In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.
On the Apache server the core team duties are distributed among 20 or so people, but only six to eight are active at any point in time.
We've made a lot of claims about what we can do, now we issue a challenge to analysts to go and figure out a way to measure it.
What we were trying to do here is to find a consensus that this was a good direction to go in and that there weren't any fundamental problems, and I think we pretty much agreed on that.
And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.
Companies have been trying to figure out what it is that makes open source work.
Engineers in the developed world should be arguing not for protectionism but for trade agreements that seek to establish rules that result in a real rise in living standards. This will ensure that outsourcing is a positive force in the developing nations economy and not an exploitative one.
No one wants one language. There are applications when it's appropriate to write something in C rather than in Java. If you want to write something where performance is much more important than extensibility, then you might want to choose C rather than Java.
What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
Software as an asset isn't stable over time; it needs to be maintained.
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.