Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.""

3 of 18 comments (clear)

  1. uh by bmac · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Big XXX Company joined Eclipse today PRs."

    Does this mean there will be a plug-in for auto pr0n slurping?

    Peace & Blessings,
    bmac
    www.mihr.com

  2. IBM gets it by Phouk · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From the interview:

    "Steve: I just wanted to point out that I think it's a great leap of faith for IBM to let this out from underneath their wing.
    Skip: Yeah, IBM is betting it's business on this, but the total number of developers that IBM is committing is going up and not going down."

    Isn't that the essential open source strategy, giving up some measure of control in return for a bigger growth of the market? Remarkable, some people at IBM seem to get OSS on a strategic level, not just superficially.

    It's an interesting interview, by the way. Consider actually reading it if you haven't. ;-)

    --
    Stupidity is mis-underestimated.
    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.