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Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this?

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Stefan Ram wrote:
>  Apache and the Eclipse Foundation work to create libraries
>  and software, and then they give it to you for free. Why are
>  they doing this? Several parties pay for them, for example
>  IBM supports Eclipse (for example, in 2001, they supported
>  Eclipse with 40 million USD), why do they do this?

One reason:  to avoid leaving a hole in the market that a competetor might 
occupy.

Another: they need the s/w but know they can't make a profit off it, so giving 
it away gains brownie points (with their own staff as well as the outside 
world) at very little /extra/ cost.

Many more reasons are possible too.

    -- chris 

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Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2014-07-14 13:44 +0100

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