I was trying to point a buddy of mine (who actually should know better, but anyway) to Planet Eclipse. He replied, it takes me here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Eclipse_Ego. I laughed long and hard.
So is it true? Is there a Planet Eclipse Ego? I'm probably guilty on that a bit. I find myself yearning to post to see my name up on the Planet, instead of just waiting to write something people would actually care about. But almost all the other posts are very informative and I don't see much evidence of any sort of "ego". Not much anyway ;).
BTW, Pat posted a comment on my last blog about being interested to pay a couple of bucks for the CDT if he could get it off an App Store. Maybe that's the answer on how to get more funding for Eclipse development. And it plays inadvertently into Bjorn's suggestion to stop doing builds at Eclipse. If you want Eclipse for free, check it out and build it yourself, just like with most other open source packages. If you want someone to do that for you, belly up to the App Store and get yours for cheap. Hmm...
Monday, April 27, 2009
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That is pretty funny :-)
We had my hockey team's end of year party at a local paintball place and I got a laugh out of all the "Eclipse" posters in the place.
The only big open source site I'm hearing the call for pay items, is from some in the eclipse community. However, I'm not seeing it say from Apache. Which speaking of Planets, there is a big difference in the way the eclipse community and the apache community run their planets. 99% of the stuff on Plant Eclipse is just eclipse related items. However, compare that to Plant Apache and I would say less than half is devoted to Apache topics, but much more about what is happening in the various committers or community members lives.
I've seen the same patter in the XML Community. We got our doses of XML related topics, but people also post other stuff that isn't necessarily XML related.
Back to the pay or download and build it yourself. Works for some, but the vast majority of open source projects I've been involved with have a binary of some sort already. I don't do much at the linux level where I'm build sources, I tend to get most of my linux items from the various apt repositories for Ubuntu.
@Dave - Don't confuse random musings with any official position. We are not going to start charging for Eclipse.
@Mike: I think Dave's saying there isn't enough random musings on Planet Eclipse. It's very much Eclipse only content.
Having said that, mine delve into other non Eclipse areas, like embedded Linux, but usually only because I'd like the Eclipse world to get a sense of what's happening in the embedded world so they care more ;).
And yes, the Foundation won't sell Eclipse, there are already vendors that do that. I'm just wondering if an App Store format would be a good way for some vendor to make a little coin at this and use it to fund additional generic Eclipse development.
I personally like the fact that I get just the facts at Planet Eclipse. I hate RSS feeds that don't stay on topic! I find that it is difficult finding information about different Eclipse projects and I like that I can count on Planet Eclipse to find new and interesting ones, and about what they are or how to use them. I find that it is difficult to find the information I am looking for on 'eclipse.org'. The site may give some brief description about the different projects, but it is just that, a brief, generalized description with no real idea about what some of them are.
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