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.


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