Re: WO to go openSource?
Re: WO to go openSource?
- Subject: Re: WO to go openSource?
- From: James Cicenia <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:21:22 -0500
When does Apple drop the second shoe? They said they are working with
OpenSource, etc., and will have an announcement again... soon?
It would be nice to hear more from Apple. I mean I am quite sure that
4 developers would have zero impact on their bottom line. And, if
they do a good job and WebObjects starts to grow again,,, they will
surely sell more servers.
So, Apple, give us some direction.
James Cicenia
On Sep 11, 2006, at 12:25 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
On 11/09/2006, at 1:16 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
On 10/09/2006, at 11:31 AM, .::welemski::. wrote:
Is WebObjects really going to be openSource?
It depends whether or not you call "deprecating all the current
tools, and hoping the community will replace them with open source
equivalents and even write a whole lot of new documentation,
whilst keeping the core product and documentation proprietary"
going open source?
I don't. I call it a great deal, for Apple. They obviously need
help these days ...
Now the other side of me (hence the additional post ;-) wonders
what else they could have done. Trying to compete with the Java
IDEs (like Eclipse and IntelliJ) was a losing battle.
The technology (e.g. the Java Bridge) within some of the current
tools (EOModeller, WOBuilder and the Xcode Plugin) was end-of-life'd.
I guess they could have paid a nice salary to a few open source
developers, maybe the current ones who have done so much to make
this possible, to continue without "the other job."
That said, I believe that there are already a few Apple employees
who currently work (at least partly) on the open source tools (at
least they are committers).
So maybe it is a reasonable deal for everyone.
Cheers,
Ashley2.
PS Perhaps someone in Apple could write some "public domain"
documentation for the new open source tools. I don't believe its
the kind of thing that OS (or any) developers hang out to do?
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