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How Eclipse Independence Will Affect Developers

Posted by timothy on from the whiter-whites-and-brighter-brights dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's an interesting article on O'Reilly's OSDir site, with John Weigand, and Skip "former chairman" McGaughey, on what moving Eclipse away from IBM's sole clutches will mean for we ordinary developers. It's interesting to hear a more ground-floor account of this vs the usual "Big XXX Company joined Eclipse today PRs.""

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  1. i think eclipse is cool by cpex · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At school most of my projects end up being java based. I really love using eclipse as an ide. variable name completion, catching all my syntax errors, give me type heirarchies its great. Dont get me wrong i am not an ide dependent, i can use vim over an ssh connection (and i do, a lot)just fine for all my work but boy is eclipse nice. thats all

  2. Re:IBM gets it by michaelggreer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isn't that the essential open source strategy, giving up some measure of control in return for a bigger growth of the market?

    Its kind of like going public: less control, but more capital. Maybe someone put it this way to the suits.

  3. IBM has software that doesn't lead to hardware? by brokeninside · · Score: 2, Insightful
    That must be the software that leads to service contracts.

    Aside from some of the games, I can't think of any IBM software that doesn't lead to hardware sales and/or service contracts. A lot of large companies go IBM because they can be a one stop shop so a lot of software that IBM does to drive hardware sales may not look directly related to hardware at first.

    That said, they've opened up quite a few of their boxed software products.