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[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: Overtaker of Eclipse Foundation Inc. possible?
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:55:55 +0100, Joerg von Frantzius <joerg.von.frantzius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Alright, something like that is what I hoped (and somehow expected from
my subjective impressions), but it is good to have it stated here in
clear terms.


Bad news:

The Eclipse Foundation can apply at _any_ time a different license to the source-code base, which requires license fees.

The code so far remains available under the open-source license.

This would require an unanimous vote by the board (which is not very realistic).

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But!

A more realistic scenario:

As IBM has a very large amounts of developers within eclipse, it controls a "critical-mass" of the eclipse domain-knowledge. Thus IBM can effectively 'shutdown' the Eclipse Foundation by only moving out it's developers.

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So, realistically, nothing is secure with the eclipse platform (as with nearly every open source system).

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