Re: Do you think 3COM should open-source CodeWarrior?

[Brian Mathis]

Christian Vandendorpe wrote:
> 
> Only thing is that CodeWarrior does not belong to 3Com but to Metrowerks.
> Different companies.
> 
> Open sourcing doesnt necessarily means that problems will be fixed faster.
> Look at the Mozilla project and how long it's taking to achieve something
> because the code is so complicated.
> 
> Chris

Heh, just want to jump in and defend here, as someone somewhat
participating in Mozilla.  The reason it's taking so long is because
about 8 months into it they scrapped the whole code base completely, and
started 100% from scratch.

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