Re: Discussion About Community Contributions to NetBeans

Tom Wheeler <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:08:29 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.general
Message-ID <CAPsQDDKf=KCkiOg+gTojvxwbQFY6uyu-rtg4=EiF-_yjZr5_4A@mail.gmail.com>
I appreciate your feedback, Armand.

I certainly don't want to imply that NetBeans is not well-funded.
Oracle has been very generous to continue employing many developers
who work  on the project full-time and we applaud their commitment.
I'm simply making the point that the community may have interests
which don't always align with their strategic plans (such as support
for Android, Python, Scala, etc.) and we should make sure we're in a
position to work on those things ourselves.

NetBeans is an extremely valuable foundation on which to build new
applications and tools.  We all benefit when we can work together on
making it better.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Armand Botha <[email protected]> wrote:
>... I always had the idea that it was a well funded project, rather than a typical open-source project.
> ...

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