Mike Milinkovich's blog

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...

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 Skerrett...

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 is...

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 early (and...

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 just checked...

Earlier this week I was on the “How Do We Get More Apps on Linux?” panel at the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit. I certainly have to agree with Danese Coopers‘s comments about being on panels. The more questions from the audience, the better IMHO. As she alludes to, I personally...

As announced by Mik and others, the Eclipse Mylar project is changing its name to Mylyn. This is the end result of quite a bit of discussion and hard work on the part of Mik, the Myl** team, the webmaster team and the legal folks at Eclipse. As described in...

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, it’s been three years since I joined the Eclipse Foundation. This is the first installment in a series of blog posts on the past, present and future of the Eclipse Foundation that I plan to write. Out of curiosity I decided to go...

I made the mistake of signing up on LinkedIn a couple of years back because it seemed like an interesting idea with some potential. I was wrong. This site has no value for me whatsoever, and I’ve asked that they close my account. In about 2.5 years the only times...

Sunday, May 20th marked my third anniversary as the Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation. My how time flies. My first inkling that this was going to be a very different job was when the phone rang at home a few days before the announcement went out. Answered by one...