Eclipse is open source. Why is this company using their brand? Ugh.
Brian
On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Felipe Leme wrote:
Hi all,
I had to talk with MyEclipseIDE (http://myeclipseide.com) support regarding work-related issues, so I took the opportunity to inquiry if they would provide free licenses for ASF committers (as someone mentioned in an internal list, IDEA provided some licenses for Ant committers some months ago, so why not try others...). Here is the answer I got:
3. We would also be happy to provide free subscriptions to Apache committers, but I need to be able to answer management's question on how does that benefit MyEclipse. Any suggestions on how to make the case for it?
So, I'd like you to help me 'making a case for it'. A couple of reasons I thought about were:
1.Many Apache projects are integrated with IDEs (like Maven, which can generate Eclipse configuration from a project metadata). Committers for these projects typically provide support only for the IDEs they have access to.
2.Your company could be listed on some ASF pages, like http://jakarta.apache.org/site/vendors.html (not sure if that really applies, touch)
3.Typically, a committer is 'high-ranked' in his/her company, so if he/she likes the IDE, chances are he/she will recommend it to the upper management.
4.Similarly, if a committer mentions such IDE in an ASF list, that's going to be a good marketing for the thousand of people that read that list.
Also, we should make it explicitly that if they 'accept the case', it doesn't imply that all committers will use the tool neither that they will promote it if they don't like the IDE (or prefer another one).
So, any thoughts and/or more reasons?
-- Felipe
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