[jimjag]

Yeah, I am a known Apache fanboy, and so I'm sure that what I say will be discounted. But, imo, this just shows what happens when an open source project becomes the sales initiative of an Open Core model company. Instead of the design and future being under the control and guidance of the community, it is instead in the hands of the VCs and whatever "promises" future revenue growth. Believe me, I know; I used to work at Covalent which was billed as the "Red Hat of the Apache web server" so I know how hard it is to resist the push of VCs and those nasty quarterly numbers. And Covalent wasn't the only Apache shop around, unlike nginx.com today.

The combination of FUD and marketing $$$ is being used to "encourage" more people to migrate (or use) nginx, as an "open source" alternative, when it's obvious that "open source" is being used mostly for the PR aspect and not so much for the community-focus and community-led aspects which is really core to "true" Open Source.