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    Java: Free At Last

    Thursday, September 7, 2017 - 16:45 by Mike Milinkovich
    There was lots of news in the land of Java yesterday. If you have not already seen the posts by Mark Reinhold and Donald Smith of Oracle, I encourage you to read: Moving Java Forward Faster Accelerating the JDK release cadence Faster and Easier Use and Redistribution of Java SE...

    Progress Update on IP @ Eclipse

    Monday, August 22, 2016 - 14:01 by Mike Milinkovich
    As promised in my last post , today we are rolling out the new Eclipse Contributor Agreement (ECA). As I mentioned earlier, if you already have an active Eclipse CLA, you don’t have to do anything….your CLA remains active and you can convert to the new agreement when it expires...

    Contributor Agreement Update

    Monday, August 15, 2016 - 08:30 by Mike Milinkovich
    In addition to overhauling our IP processes , next week the Eclipse Foundation will be updating our contributor agreements. The changes we’ll be making include: Rename the CLA to the “Eclipse Contributor Agreement” or “ECA”. The reason we’re doing that is that in many circles within the free and open...

    Eclipse Tooling Platforms

    Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 11:05 by Mike Milinkovich
    Two weeks ago at EclipseCon, the Eclipse Che project announced its 4.0 release. This announcement is the first major result from the Eclipse Cloud Development strategy we announced eighteen months ago. Eclipse Che is an innovative new IDE platform which has been designed specifically for the needs of web and...

    Investing in Eclipse Tools

    Friday, January 15, 2016 - 11:03 by Mike Milinkovich
    Yesterday I talked about three interesting new runtime projects which have joined the Eclipse community, and made the point that we are extending our reach beyond our “…original comfort zone of tools…”. But that doesn’t mean that we are not seriously investing in tools. In fact, in 2016 the Eclipse...

    A Great Start to 2016

    Thursday, January 14, 2016 - 15:22 by Mike Milinkovich
    Yesterday was quietly one of the biggest days ever for Eclipse. That is because of three new project proposals that went live. It’s certainly unusual for us to have three new projects at once, but I’m not sure if it’s unprecedented. However, I am really excited about these projects, and...

    Hello Andrea!

    Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 09:30 by Mike Milinkovich
    A few weeks ago, Andrew called me into his office, and told me “I’m sure you’ve figured this out already, but I’m transgender.” To which I replied “Uhhh….I had no idea. ” I am so oddly oblivious to these sorts of things, it’s sad. Today Andrew becomes Andrea . Wh‎at...