Because forking means you are required to drag along the gigantic tail
of legacy. I respect Google for having the guts to reboot the whole
thing occasionally, it's pragmatic. However I doubt they will be doing
their own IDE from scratch, not initially anyway.

On Sep 28, 6:46 am, Miroslav Pokorny <miroslav.poko...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > So... who wants to speculate on Google starting their own, ground up
> > toolchain solution for GWT / Android / etc that is NOT based on
> > Eclipse or Netbeans....
>
> Why would anyone want to start from scratch when licensing is not a problem
> if one wishes to fork ?

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