[News.eclipse.foundation] [GOVERNANCE] - The Prime Directives of Ethical

[ilias <ilias@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: [ECLIPSE.ORG] - The Prime Directives of Ethical Business
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 09:17:54 +0300
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I've detected this very interesting startup:

http://www.sourcelabs.com/plan.htm

what is most interesting to me is this here:

"1) WE PROMISE NOT TO LOCK YOU IN, EVER. [...]"
"2) WE PROMISE TO KEEP OUR COMPANY OPEN [...]"
"3) WE PROMISE TO KEEP OUR EGOS SEPARATE FROM TECHNOLOGY [...]"

Although I've planed to focus on my personal projects (that's why i'm evaluating eclipse), I've immediately sent a note to sourcelabs that I am interested in working for them as an independent.

Why?

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The impressive Prime Directives (especially #3):

The Prime Directive "Tie by Serving" (promise 1)

The Prime Directive "Transparency and Candor" (promise 2)

The Prime Directive "Control of Egoism" (promise 3)!

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You can summarize those 3 as: "Ethical Business".

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[btw: you can tranform those 3 to: "Serve, Tranparently and Rational"]

[btw: You can 'normalize' those 3 to: "Transparency".]

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I miss exactly those 3 Prime Directives within eclipse.org.

Clearly stated.

Every new process should be defined based on those directives.

Every old process should be verified and adjusted based on those directives.

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Currently, eclipse.org would fail dramatically to pass an [honest] evaluation against those 3 prime directives. Governance Model, Development Process, Project Infrastructure - all of them.
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The wide scope of eclipse.org!

No chance without "Ethical Business".

Even if 50 more companies became stategic developers, eclipse would fail to have the success that it would deserve.

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"Ethical Business" is the fundamental part which I miss within eclipse.org.

This is the main reason why eclipse.org (and thus eclipse IDE) will most possibly fail to pass my evaluation, forcing me to take the next step: netBeans.

Yes, I've evaluated eclipse IDE mostly based on the surrounding eclipse.org systems.

You think eclipse is technically far above NetBeans?

Wake up!

NetBeans + Ethical Business + some minor steps + 1 year = ?

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A few months before i made a quick comparsion "NetBeans vs. eclipse". I picked eclipse - mainly due to technical structure (tool design framework) and its political structure (open to join).

I have lost very much time, but at least I have currently a lot of the eclipse.org domain knowledge active.

I have extracted many minor changes, which would bring eclipse.org quickly & smoothly closer to those 3 Prime Directives.

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But!

Based on the time and energy needed to initialize and track only _one_ simple and _undoubtable_ rational change ("dedicated eclipse.org newsgroup", https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=73282), I estimate that it would take eclipse.org years to become as efficient as it should be.

Years, for something which could be done within a few months.

This is _highly_ disapointing to me.

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[ you may think now: what is all this, how can "Ethical Business" increase efficiency and productivity of an open source project?

Simple: in an transparent and egoism-free system (open source project), rational change suggestions would be adopted nearly immediately. Feedback providers see that - a chain-reaction happens.]

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