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A comment on Ask HN: Why are Apache projects so Java-centric?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are Apache projects so Java-centric? by lmm on Monday March 23, 2015 @06:44AM (#9250222)
It's not so much that Apache writes projects in Java, as that companies with Java projects find that Apache is a good place to give them to.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are Apache projects so Java-centric? by sqrt17 on Monday March 23, 2015 @09:14AM (#9250663)
In particular, the Apache License 2.0 is the most appealing license for "commercial-friendly" open source, whereas the GPL with its "developer-friendly" license correlates highly with FSF-hosted, Gnome/KDE/... or independent projects.

The Java/C(++)? divide also seems to correlate with "commercial-friendly" (Hadoop, Lucene) versus "developer-friendly" (Blender, Linux) software.

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