On 21/04/2007, at 5:43 AM, Landon Blake wrote:
Let's just say for the sake of discussion that all those other people
shriveled up, and Eclipse was the only thing left. Would it matter
then
how IBM managed Eclipse? Would it then become important that IBM might
not be a good open source citizen? Would it not matter because
developers could always fork the code an move on without IBM?
It would not matter because the developers could fork the code. The
competitors wouldn't shrivel up and die either, as they could also
release their base stuff as open source and make money from being
value-added.
If you're researching to make a public posting, why not talk to
Richard Stallman? He's spent years thinking about these issues, and
will have far more advanced insights than a few weeks of pondering a
problem posed in a magazine written by a journalist who probably also
spent a few weeks pondering the problem.
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