[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: Overtaker of Eclipse Foundation Inc. possi

[Joerg von Frantzius <joerg.von.frantzius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I really liked the one about nationalization of the Eclipse 
foundation... :-))

Ha ha ha ... ah?! Oh! No! I can sense approaching of an intelligent 
entity surrounded by a massive humour-resilient force-field! It'll 
probably materialize its dark energies in a response to your article, as 
no answer can be be left standing alone in one of ITS threads!

RUN FOR COVER!

Eric Clayberg schrieb:

> Since we're having fun with "realistic" scenarios, here are some more...
>
> o Microsoft buys Sun and decides to charge license fees for Java itself.
>
> o Microsoft buys SAP and RedHat, puts its Clippy developers on the Eclipse
> team and sabotages the project.
>
> o The Eclipse Foundation decides to refocus Eclipse on being the best
> platform for rmaking GameBoy games.
>
> o Ontario secedes from Canada and nationalizes the Eclipse Foundation. Mike
> M. is appointed Minister of Eclipse.
>
> o Mike M. trips and spills his latte on the main Eclipse CVS server and the
> entire Eclipse code base is wiped out. The paper tape reader is broken, so
> they can't reload their backups.
>
> o A massive earthquake hits the San Francisco peninsula on February 28th.
> The Burlingame Hyatt collapses killing 90% of Eclipse developers worldwide.
>
> o Eclipse reaches critical mass, becomes self-aware and rebrands itself
> Skynet. You know the rest...
>
> Are you quaking in your boots yet? Anyone else have any interesting
> scenarios to consider?
>
> -Eric
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