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Apache HTTP Server is the most-used HTTP server software on the Internet, with approximately 63 percent of all websites using Apache for hosting as of May 2011. Despite its popularity, Apache remains free for server administrators to install and use. The Apache Software Foundation has stated several reasons for keeping the Apache HTTP Server software free.

Market Accountability
The Apache Software Foundation wants its Apache HTTP Server software to be a reliable option for all of its users, regardless of whether they are individuals or large corporations. By offering the Apache software for free it ensures that there is no motivation to focus development on one set of users at the expense of reliability for the rest.

Healthy Competition
To promote the development of World Wide Web technologies and Internet platforms, no single company should hold ownership of all WWW protocols and the software used to access these protocols. Offering Apache as a free server software option helps to ensure that.

Community Effort
Much of the development of Apache is performed by volunteers from within the Apache community. Offering the software for free gives these volunteers an incentive to help improve the product they are already using and may attract additional members to the community as well. While individual volunteers may not contribute a large amount of work to fixing bugs and implementing new Apache features, the combined efforts of the volunteer community results in a larger amount of ongoing software support than many commercial software products receive.

Customization
The Apache Software Foundation offers a license, which allows others to modify the Apache HTTP Server software as a means to create their own software projects, encouraging further development of World Wide Web technologies through the use of their free software. No fee is associated with using this license, though any resulting products must be identified as being based on Apache software. Products based on Apache cannot be labeled as official Apache products, as this is a violation of the licensing agreement. Different versions of the Apache license exist, and developers can select the license of their preference by basing their projects on a version of Apache that is bound by the license of their choice.

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