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License proliferation has been a hot topic amongst the open source community for the past couple of years. I am happy to report that the Eclipse Foundation and IBM have collaborated to do our bit to help by superseding the Common Public License (CPL) with the Eclipse Public License (EPL)...

Bjorn’s latest blog post on “ Not A Product” has received some passionate responses. It is important that everyone understand that the opinions expressed in Bjorn’s post are his own. They are most definitely not the consensus position of either the Eclipse Foundation staff or of the Board. Bjorn has...

Well, the nominations are up, and 2009 Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors election is shaping up to be the most interesting yet. There are six nominees for Committer Rep and nine nominees for Sustaining Member Rep, each competing for four available seats. My recollection is that is the largest number...

Today marks the fifth birthday of the Eclipse Foundation. My how time flies when you’re having fun! It is customary to mark these types of occasions with a bit of an retrospective. My challenge is to try to condense the swirl of activity that is Eclipse into some common themes...

I have moved my blogging activities over the the Eclipse blog site. See you over there.

We announced the results of the 2008 board elections earlier today. The turnout this year was a modest improvement over last year. There were 148 committer votes cast, and 29 Add-In Provider votes. For 2008 there were 5 spots for each class of elected representative. This means that the Add-In...

The only difference between men and boys is the price of their toys. Sound familiar? Well Denis’ new toys arrived in the mail today. You see, Denis is 100% toy-focused. When he is not riding his snow machine (that Canadian for snowmobile) or his 4-wheeler (Canadian for ATV), Denis like...

Just a reminder to all you folks out there that today is the last day for EclipseCon 2008 early registrations. EclipseCon 2008 is shaping up to be the best EclipseCon ever. More talks, more tracks, Developer Days, hackathons, cool keynotes…. If you are interested in Eclipse technologies for tools, frameworks...

Could one of our EclipseCon keynoters have a secret 8 year plan in the works? To be specific here I am not talking about Cory Doctorow, because, well, as far as I can tell Cory’s career path is to be Cory Doctorow. And I’m not talking about Sam Ramji although...

Well, maybe not quite “Super” The nominations for the Eclipse Foundation Board of Director elections are now posted. This is a great collection of nominees. I want to personally thank each of them for putting their names forward. Given the candidates, the Eclipse community will be well served by any...