[KrestenKjaer]

  Apache has a pretty good framework for "crossing the t's and dotting the i's" in legal terms for code contributions, so that big companies know that all the code is accounted for and there are no nasty legal surprises lurking - in theory.

That sentence exactly summed up the point I was trying to make.

[eternalban]

Not "exactly". You also expressed tired cliches such as "Big companies create projects written in Java."

[jpitz]

Just because its tired, doesn't mean it isn't true.

[eternalban]

I have actually audited systems by "big companies" written in other, e.g. C#, languages.

(p.s. Try "it's")

[jpitz]

I have actually authored systems at big and small companies in: C# VB Pascal Java Python Ruby JavaScript

My point was not that big companies don't use languages other than Java. My point was that the tired cliche of Java dominating at big companies is entirely warranted. If I implied that Java penetration at large enterprises is 100%, then there is a lot more wrong with my writing than a missing apostrophe.

[bkeroack]

C# is Microsoft's Java. How many Python, Go, Ruby or Haskell projects have you audited at "big companies"?

[eternalban]

Ruby and Python are everywhere in the enterprise. Haskell is currently "useless" [1] for the enterprise for the obvious human resource reasons.

[1]: https://youtu.be/iSmkqocn0oQ

[codygman]

> the obvious human resource reasons

Can you elaborate on these?

[KrestenKjaer]

Big companies create a lot of projects, some of them are bound to be in Java. I in no way intended to state Java was the only language for business applications.