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Eclipse Foundation Celebrates 10 Years

Posted by Unknown on from the emacs-is-still-better dept.

msmoriarty writes with news that the Eclipse foundation is ten years old this week. Although Eclipse was released in 2001, development was controlled by IBM until the creation of the independent Eclipse Foundation in 2004. "According to Eclipse Foundation Director Mike Milinkovich, that's a major reason Eclipse was able to thrive: 'IBM....did an exemplary job of setting Eclipse free ... We became the first open source organization to show that real competitors could collaborate successfully within the community.' He also talks about misconceptions about Eclipse, its current open source success, and what he sees for the future."

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  1. Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    and I still don't know what it does.

  2. Java by bkgoodman · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think it's good - but on the rare occasion I can actually get Java to install and work, it's slow as a pig.

  3. Re:Is there a memory leak or is it just Flashbuild by binarylarry · · Score: 0, Troll

    Adobe + Eclipse = Computer Gonorrhea

    The only way it could be worse was is Oracle was involved. WAIT! Oracle owns Java.

    So it's really:

    Adobe + Eclipse + Oracle = Computer AIDS

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    Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
  4. Re:Still using it by clockwise_music · · Score: 1, Troll

    I've used Basica, GW-Basic, QBasic, Logo, Visual Basic for DOS, VB6, Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++, Watcom, Visual Studio 2002/2003/2005/2008/2010/2012, Netbeans, XCode, Notepad, Notepad++, Vi, Watcom, Progress4GL and Eclipse.

    Hands down, Eclipse was the slowest and most confusingest I've ever used out of ALL of the above.