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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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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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