But the Eclipse foundation has many projects that are not realted to the IDE: https://projects.eclipse.org/
For example, both Chromium and AOSP use Gerrit for code review, and JGit, an Eclipse project, is a key dependency of Gerrit. So everyone working with AOSP and Chromium day-to-day have to (indirectly) work with Eclipse Foundation projects.
I really don't understand how anyone can use eclipse. When I've used it, it feels incredibly clunky compared to intellij, stuff isn't discoverable, code completion is worse, quickfixes are harder to use etc.
"This move will provide global stakeholders more choice for their strategic open source initiatives. We believe that more choice and greater diversity will be of benefit to both the global open source communities, and for the industries that rely upon and collaborate with them. The Eclipse Foundation aspires to be a truly global institution, now with a new European home."
What does this really mean? If the move creates more choice, then what is restricting the choice today? If it creates greater diversity, what is restricting it today?
This reads like there's something they're trying to say without saying, but I don't know what I should be reading between the lines.
I think the Eclipse Foundation sees more of their growth happening in Asia, and that's a lot easier to do from the EU as their working hours overlap with both the US and Asia. Working hours in Asia don't overlap very well with American hours; their most productive hours happen in the middle of the night for us.
I'm sure there are other reasons too, but these seem like some of the most practical.
If the majority of your developers are in Europe it would be cheaper to focus your efforts there.
Further, it’s also closer to folks in Asia and probably easier and cheaper for them to travel.
Instead, the action itself must be interpreted, and not the words the actors couch their deeds in.
The lines have nothing between them. The real information (juicy gossip, inside dirt) is wholly elsewhere. This is merely a "change of address" sign posted on the front door, with some decorative Art Nouveau clip art decorating the notice.
Maybe hinting about other comparable open source foundations (FSF? Apache? Debian?) not being in Europe? Is that true?
https://blog.huawei.com/2019/10/22/huawei-becomes-a-strategi...
As well as another company that partners with a Chinese government lab.
I have to wonder whether this was about technology transfer and geopolitics as it becomes more difficult to work with both China and the US.
That was my point. Belgium, a famously neutral country, allows you to do that.
Even if technology transfer doesn't get away from US export rules for existing US-based projects, the switch might be relevant for future donations from Huawei to Eclipse.
It's ironic now that you can have a total Eclipse without the Sun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk
Total Eclipse: Klaus Nomi (from "Urgh! A Music War")
Big shots
Argue about what they've got
Making the planet so hot
Hot as a holocaust
Blow up
Everything's gonna go up
Even if you don't show up
In your Chemise Lacoste
Total eclipse
It's a total eclipse
It's a total eclipse of the sun
Can't come to grips with the total eclipse
Just a slip of the lips and you're done
Fall out
Nobody left to crawl out
If someone calls
We're all out
Turning in to French fries
Last dance
Let the entire cast dance
Do the dismembered blast dance
As we get atomized!
Total eclipse
It's a total eclipse
It's a total eclipse of the sun
Can't come to grips with the total eclipse
Just a slip of the lips and you're doneI understand that a big part of Sun's value was in Java, but the many-core high-I/O-bandwidth server business was still valuable to Oracle and synergized pretty well with Oracle's business (outside of the legal department). The value to the world as a whole was much higher with IBM (or, at a second choice, Google) owning Java and Oracle (or some other high-I/O bandwidth enterprise product vendor) owning the Sun hardware business.
The Jikes compiler's startup time was so much faster than Sun's javac, and Java compilers perform very few optimizations when compiling source to bytecode. (My understanding is that the spec restricts which optimizations are allowed.)
JikesRVM (a JVM written in Java) had surprisingly good performance for a small research project. It's bootstrap process involved AoT-compiling itself, so it would have been not too big a leap to have a general non-GCJ AoT for Java years earlier, and (because it uses its normal second-tier JIT for AoT compilation) presumably not too difficult to get the hot paths all re-inlined and re-optimized even through the AoT-compiled code.
I think a very small minority of developers or users preferred the look of Swing (or worse, AWT) widgets to SWT. Sure, SWT widgets looked different across platforms, but the alien look of Swing/AWT widgets was very off-putting to users (and to a lesser extent, I tihnk, developers).
This is like writing "ACME Is Moving to the American doublecontinent".
Europe is very diverse in sense of languages, countries etc.
So, they should better have written "The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Belgium".
But not in its sense of handling legal entities. IP law and anything relevant to the operation of a foundation like this is mostly determined by EU law.
Europe is gelling into a political unit, with the EU and all.
Similarly, North and Middle America with the NAFTA (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_American_Fr...). Keep in mind that the EU started withtrade agreements, too.
> Executive director Mike Milinkovich told The Register: "This is about re-domiciling the legal entity that controls The Eclipse Foundation from the US to Europe."
> Today's move is a little more major (although won't involve moving bottoms from Ottawa seats to something a bit more Belgian just yet).
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/12/eclipse_moves_to_eu...
It also mentioned that the names, brand, trademark, intellectual property and anti-trust will be managed by the new belgian entity.
There's nothing wrong with that. It sounds like the move is partially motivated by legal reasons. As an amateur who likes to know the details of laws, I'm interested what the differences are between their current legal entity and the new belgian one.
>The Eclipse Foundation, while currently a USA incorporated not-for-profit organization, already manages its operations split between Canada and Europe, so there will be minimal to no impact to the Foundation’s operations.
List here: https://projects.eclipse.org/
Makes sense to be where your developers/members are.
far far far away from me.