Vince O'Sullivan wrote: > On May 6, 10:34 am, Neil Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wait, I thought NetBeans was open source. How can it possibly die? >> > > Being open source means that it is free to consume, however it is far > from free to produce. If it is to compete with eclipse (underwritten > largely - I understand - by IBM) and IntelliJ (a paid for product > financed by its customers), then it requires (like the two products > above) a proper full-time, paid professional development team (plus an > active and enthusiastic user community). I don't think the community > on its own would be able to cut it. A recurring point in these discussions is that some see the "community" as purely hobbyist. Parts of the community can make profit out of their work, as it normally happens with other open source products, such as Spring. Of course, NetBeans is not as spread as Spring, I'm not thinking in the same scale. Of course it would be much different than Eclipse, that - as you said - is largely funded by IBM. Nevertheless it might happen. It could even occur that some company start providing a paying version of NetBeans, such as MyEclipse, making a business directly out of it. And of course I'm considering not only NetBeans IDE, but NetBeans Platform too, which is used by a large number of customers and integrators.
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