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Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, Part 2

The day (Thursday, 20.11.2008) began with the keynote of David Wood from Symbian. He talked about why mobile software must go open source and how they're going to approach it or already doing it. Some time in the future, they're going to move on to the SFL and EPL licenses with their 40 million lines of code. He sees the claims of the open source community to be for example "faster time to market", "more eyeballs looking on the code" and lower barriers of collaboration. They seem to focus on the lower barriers. He gave a short overview of some licensing models, including weak and strong copyleft. Interesting was the part about the "Six laws of fragmentation", where one solution is clear leadership for the coding together with a powerful platform, which is therefore unlikely to be forked. As forks would be fragmentation. He sees Java as one sort of "intermediate layer" to hide OS diversity from an application.

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Eclipse Summit Europe 2008, Part 1

This year's the first time I attended an Eclipse-related conference: the Eclipse Summit Europe 2008 in Ludwigsburg near Stuttgart in Germany. There were so many intersting talks on the schedule and so i didn't plan exactly to which i'm going to listen to. I arrived in Ludwigsburg on 19.11.2008 at the "Forum am Schlosspark" just in time for the Keynote of Dave Thomas at 9 o'clock.

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