Dang Nathan. Let me go and hide again.
On 11/5/06, Nathan Strutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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:259204 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
