I'm just making a point for historical context, not disparaging OpenACS or anyone else for that matter.
<blockquote>> So I do not think that the existance of aD contributed to the groove of ACS.
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This is a big overstatement. Just because aD sucked ass at the end, doesn't mean that its existance didn't contribute to the groove of ACS. As you point out, aD put on Bootcamps, sometimes weekly in three to four locations around the world. On top of that, there was aD University, the bboards, CVS browsing, etc. In other words a lot of resources that independent developers could take advantage of. I think that definitely contributed to the ACS groove.
I count myself as one of the more bitter former employees of aD, but I must admit that we can thank aD for making a lot of those resources open source. An important difference between aD and M$.
Walter
