On 11/09/2006, at 1:16 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
On 10/09/2006, at 11:31 AM, .::welemski::. wrote:
Is WebObjects really going to be openSource?
It depends whether or not you call "deprecating all the current
tools, and hoping the community will replace them with open source
equivalents and even write a whole lot of new documentation, whilst
keeping the core product and documentation proprietary" going open
source?
I don't. I call it a great deal, for Apple. They obviously need
help these days ...
Now the other side of me (hence the additional post ;-) wonders what
else they could have done. Trying to compete with the Java IDEs
(like Eclipse and IntelliJ) was a losing battle.
The technology (e.g. the Java Bridge) within some of the current
tools (EOModeller, WOBuilder and the Xcode Plugin) was end-of-life'd.
I guess they could have paid a nice salary to a few open source
developers, maybe the current ones who have done so much to make this
possible, to continue without "the other job."
That said, I believe that there are already a few Apple employees who
currently work (at least partly) on the open source tools (at least
they are committers).
So maybe it is a reasonable deal for everyone.
Cheers,
Ashley2.
PS Perhaps someone in Apple could write some "public domain"
documentation for the new open source tools. I don't believe its the
kind of thing that OS (or any) developers hang out to do?
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