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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. 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.