Some highlights from Greg Stein’s keynote
The Apache Way
- Communities first, code second
- Communities over individuals
- Apache central to Open Source work but Eclipse is also gravitating to the center
- The license trend is going to the bottom
Proprietary
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Restricted
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Copyleft (GPL, EPL)
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Non-copyleft (APL, BSD)
I found it quite interesting to see how Apache is organized and how Eclipse compares to it.
For now, there is few overlaps between Apache and Eclipse communities but it has already started.
For example, both communities now offer an OSGi implementation:
It it going to be interesting to see where things are going…
March 22nd, 2006 at 19:48
There’s also an incubator project in Apache called Tuscany which uses EMF.
March 22nd, 2006 at 20:00
Hi Chris,
I didn’t know about that project. thanks for the info.
I definitely see Apache and Eclipse collaborate and reuse
projects from each other.
What’s more intriguing to me is how Apache and Eclipse will
handle “competiting” projects such as Equinox and Felix.
Brian Behlendorf once talked about
“coopetition” when two open source communities where both competiting
and cooperating on projects. I think this term apply quite well
for Eclipse and Apache synergy.
At the end, I’m pretty sure that we, Open Source developers, will benefit
from this coopetition.