Dang Andrew, you're on a roll this week. You blindly haven't been paying attention to Eclipse news for the past 3 years then ;).
Let me help fill you in. The Eclipse foundation was spun off of IBM, and is supported by IBM and a large number of other organizations in the forms of paid developers, grants, hosting, bandwidth, and general directional help (which takes time and ultimately costs money). Mozilla is another example of this process. Organizations like AOL and Google pay some of the full-time employees' salaries to work on projects that benefit them (Firefox), in a round-about way. Anyway, the point I'm getting at is that, if they were feeling nice, Adobe could put someone internal on the CFEclipse project, as if they were Mark's lackey/intern/code monkey. Maybe not even full time, it could be as simple as one or two days a week. Something to relieve Mark and keep things moving. I know there had been some conversations in the past, where the CFE team wanted to make sure that CFEclipse was in the hands of the CF developers. It sounds nice, but some support (though not in a controlling nature) sounds nicer. -- nathan strutz http://www.dopefly.com/ On 11/5/06, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmm, you blindy haven't heard of eclipse then;-) No money needed > > > > On 11/5/06, Nathan Strutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Better yet, get someone else to pay. That's how a lot of the open-source > > projects work (like Eclipse). A larger company hires some number of > > developers to work on an open source project that benefits them in some > > way. > > Hmmm. If only we could think of a really big software company that would > > benefit from a widely available and loved open source editor for > > ColdFusion. > > If only there was a large company who liked ColdFusion enough... hmm... > > > > And if only some of their employees were listening in on this thread... > > > > -- > > nathan strutz > > http://www.dopefly.com/ > > > > > > On 11/3/06, Mark Drew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > "Pay people to work on CFEclipse instead..." > > > > > > If only! :D > > > > > > MD > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:259203 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
