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

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In article <Apache-20140704032235@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de>,
 ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (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? 

A common open source business model is to create incredibly complicated 
and under-documented free libraries then sell support and services for 
them.  It's not always a direct link.  One business may sell support 
while another shovels new code into it.

J2EE and XPath based languages immediately come to mind.  Luckily they 
went out of fashion before I had to suffer through them for too long.

I believe IBM uses Eclipse as the IDE for their "Enterprise" grade stuff.

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Re: Apache, Eclipse, ... Why do they do this? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-07-03 20:37 -0700
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