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RE: RE: [platform-swt-dev] org.eclipse.swt.SWT

If Sun dies and kills SWING, I bet there will be numerous companies
willing to buy it to continue supporting it. If there are none, I bet
SUN would make the sources available as GPL or MPL or some OSS friendly
licence.

There are too many swing customers to let swing die.


-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Another consideration is that SWT will never really
> disappear and make
> your investments in it worthless. The source is available and if this
site
> goes down, some other site will pick it up.

This is an interesting idea.  That SWT is actually a less dangerous
investment than Swing, because Swing might die some day.  This would
only
happen if Sun kills it, but the fact is that it is possible.

These are excellent arguments, Erik.  I will use them when appropriate.


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