Thursday, June 28, 2007

Where is the C# Jakarta?

I've been tinkering around with C# for the last few years as well as with a few other programming languages. One of the things I have noticed is that while the open-source movement in the .net world is fairly strong, there is no equivalent for the Apache foundations Jakarta project.

A quick perusal of the CSharp-Source.net website shows dozens of different projects out there; however, very few of them utilize a core-set of well documented and well maintained projects. Those that know me know that I am not a GPL flag waiver as I believe that there needs to be a balance of open-source and commercial software; I firmly believe that that Apache/BSD/MIT model promotes freedom for the developer. Freedom for the developer is what is going to build the open-source libraries that we as developers need to succeed.