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Miguel de Icaza  
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 More options Mar 13 2007, 5:59 pm
From: "Miguel de Icaza" <miguel.de.ic...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:59:23 -0000
Local: Tues, Mar 13 2007 5:59 pm
Subject: Re: Eiffel now Open Source on 13 Mar 2007
Hello,

> Bertrand Meyer is kind of obnoxious. Several years ago, he wrote an
> article for Software Development Magazine condemning the open source
> software movement and accusing open source advocates of perpetrating a
> "campaign of hate" against proprietary software developers. The Eiffel
> source code is being opened up now as a last resort because the
> programming language has lost virtually all of its relevance.

Not everyone understood open source the day it was launched.

Look at Sun and Java, they have a history of decades of resisting the
open sourcing of Java, it took a long time, but they eventually
changed their mind.

Like someone said "wise people change their minds" ;-)

Miguel.


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