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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. Gnaa!, a new host for Freesoftware development by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dear Free Software friends,

    A self organized development hosting facility, Gnaa! (Gnaa is Not An Acronym), is available to all Libre Software developpers and users at http://gnaa.org/. It was created in January 2004 and is offering the same services as Savannah and SourceForge.net.

    Philosophically, Gnaa! follows the lead of the Free Software Foundation. Projects hosted on Gnaa! will be distributed under licensing terms compatible with each other so that they can be mixed freely. Running these projects on your own machine will not require any non-free software.

    The self organized side of Gnaa! means that it is run by its users. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the maintainance of the hardware and software platform. Entering the Gnaa! maintainers team can happen within the hour : propose yourself, answer support requests if you can, provide a patch to implement the feature you want. No contribution will be ignored or discarded: if you make a mistake we rely on you to fix it.

    Because Gnaa! is philosophically and technically compatible with Savannah, we started to implement an import/export procedure so that projects can move freely between Gnaa! and Savannah. The compromission of Savannah last year showed that it is critical to have many Free Software development facilities where projects can be backed up easily.

    Happy Hacking,

    About:
    Gnaa! has been started in January 2004 by Loic Dachary (Savannah's project iniator), Mathieu Roy (myself, deeply involved in Savannah since 2002) and Vincent Caron (involved in Savannah since the summer 2003). The hardware is provided by the Free Software Foundation France and the bandwidth is offered by Free, a French Internet Services Provider.

  2. Re:uh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People who support John Kerry are SO HOT! Have you seen his cousin, for instance? Unbelievable! What is it about Kerry supporters that makes them so attractive?

    Deaniacs should just go home. Ugly people have no place in politics.

  3. an eclipse soon? by Dreadlord · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    huh? You mean there is an eclipse happening soon?

    I doubt it will have any effects on developers anyway, especially we /.ers, who hardly see the sunlight.

    j/k'ing

    --
    The IT section color scheme sucks.
  4. Re:i think eclipse is cool by cpex · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    i dont get it why did i get modded off topic? a article about eclipse, which i appreciate very much and wanted to express how much thanks i have for the software.