Results tagged “Eclipse Foundation” from Andrey Platov

JetBrains just announced an open source edition of their popular IntelliJ IDE, under the Apache 2.0 license. Ian Skerrett, Director of Marketing at the Eclipse Foundation welcomes this move, while Eugene Kuleshov asking if that is beginning of the end.

I'd agree with Eugene, this is definitely beginning of the end... With some difference: now eclipse is more close to the end than it was 2 years ago.

To understand this let's guess JetBrains' motivation:

Nowadays there are tens of Eclipse project under Eclipse Foundation and hundreds of eclipse-based products in all over the world. Everyone can clearly recognize eclipse-project and separate it from non-eclipse projects. But what is criteria of calling project eclipse-based or not? Linkage with any of Eclipse Foundation projects do not look sufficient...