Mike Milinkovich's blog

    Why Communities Win

    Monday, November 12, 2007 - 19:05 by Mike Milinkovich
    Morning cup of Tim Horton’s coffee: $1.05 Tuna sandwich for lunch: $4.50 Listening to Donald giggle like a school girl when describing the Android SDK using Eclipse : priceless One of the interesting phenomena about working at the Eclipse Foundation is the intelligence and strategy attributed to us. Take for...

    Vote for Eclipse!

    Wednesday, October 31, 2007 - 15:56 by Mike Milinkovich
    As noticed by Genady and others, the Eclipse Foundation is in the running to join the SE/EE Executive Committee of the Java Community Process . The question, of course, is why? I thought I would share our answer via my blog as well. …because we think we have a lot...

    Yes, We Do

    Friday, October 5, 2007 - 11:47 by Mike Milinkovich
    Philippe recently asked a question which I think deserves a clear answer: .. .is the EPL just a joke, that everybody can ignore? The answer is, of course, no. We take the Eclipse Public License very seriously. There have been numerous times when we at the Eclipse Foundation been involved...

    Introducing the EUPL

    Thursday, September 20, 2007 - 11:23 by Mike Milinkovich
    I was very intrigued to learn about the European Union Public License today. Having a government-drafted and supported open source license is breaking new ground as far as I know. I found in particularly interesting that they drafters selected the Eclipse Public License as one of the licenses they will...

    Eclipse Summit Europe is Coming!

    Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - 11:32 by Mike Milinkovich
    We are just a few weeks away from our second annual Eclipse Summit Europe event. Last year’s event was an outstanding gathering of the Eclipse community, and I am definitely looking forward to this year’s as well. ESE is a little bit different from EclipseCon , and in some ways...

    A Banner Week

    Friday, August 17, 2007 - 09:41 by Mike Milinkovich
    Sitting at home in my pajamas with a fever and a sore throat does not usually put me in an great mood. However, there have been a number of news items this week that really do make for some very good news for the Eclipse community and ecosystem that I...

    Community Trademarks

    Thursday, July 19, 2007 - 11:32 by Mike Milinkovich
    There’s been a bit of conversation going on between Savio Rodrigues and Angry Bill Burke about the value of trademarks this week. This is rather timely, given the recent update to the Eclipse Foundation Trademark Guidelines and the parallel conversation about “ CDT for Windows ” going on between Ian...

    Not So Fast!

    Thursday, July 12, 2007 - 11:40 by Mike Milinkovich
    IANAL, not even on TV. I noticed an article in InformationWeek that asserts that the Eclipse Public License ( EPL ) and GPLv3 are compatible. Although I think that it would be a good thing if it was easier for the two communities to share and re-use code, the article...

    Present (part 2)

    Monday, July 9, 2007 - 01:30 by Mike Milinkovich
    This is a continuation of last Friday’s post , and is the third installment in my Past , Present and Future of Eclipse series. No conversation about the present world of Eclipse can omit a comment on the vibrancy of the ecosystem. As I mentioned earlier, I believe that the...

    Present…(part 1)

    Friday, July 6, 2007 - 11:38 by Mike Milinkovich
    As promised , here is my attempt to capture the state of the Eclipse community at present. It is an incredibly daunting task to try to do this in a single blog post. But here goes… The obvious place to start is the recent release of Eclipse Europa . I...