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Redmonk's Governor describes IBM's open-sourcing of Eclipse as "predatory behavior." Whether IBM's actions are predatory or not, does it really matter to Java developers? Could the predominance of Eclipse eventually hinder the future and progress of Java IDEs?
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If you can't sell it, then open source it, and sell the book on how to use it. If IBM kept it under its control, it'd have to spend money. It'd have to make that money up somewhere. At that time, in the commercial IDE market, Borland was still king.
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First, once you accept that definition of "predatory" then every OpenSource app is "predatory". Instead, the forced commoditization of some tools fuels innovation by moving the creative thought to more important tasks.
Second, now that Eclipse is OpenSource you can just extend it, fix it, etc, sure, some bored first year CS students might go write a new IDE, but then you just implement any worthwhile ideas into Eclipse.
There is nothing to be gained by re-writing the same old IDE by 30 different companies, and everything to be gained by programmers being able to concentrate on code and not how to make the newest IDE work.
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