On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
No company will provide a paying version of NetBeans. GPL should kill the market. Dual licensing strikes as a cheap thick IMHO > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 > -- Marcelo Morales --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
