On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 23:59 -0800, Vince O'Sullivan wrote: > On Nov 23, 7:58 pm, Chris Adamson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Anyways, I get the sense that IDEs have become strategic assets essential > > to the well being of specific platforms, and are usually developed by those > > platforms' sponsors and usually given away for free to foster development > > for that platform. IDEA, as independent pay-ware, is something of an > > anachronism here. > > You're saying that Eclipse and NetBeans are given away free for the > strategic purpose of promoting Windows, Unix and Apple platforms by > the sponsors of those platforms?
Well that certainly seems to be true of the Java ME SDK, Version 3 is out for Windows, for the very first time there is a Mac OS X version, and for Linux -- nothing. Thus it it clear that Sun (this happened before the Oracle purchase), are discriminating against Linux and Solaris (!) and for Windows and Mac OS X. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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