Re: Visual Web JSF

[Michael Lockhart < >]

What about it?  This is a commercial issue, brought about by commercial preassures. It's not an open source downside at all. There are no guarantee's with commercial software either -- witness MS Excel's dropping it's macro feature in favour of VBA. Or when Apple discontinued Hypercard. Read the fine print on the EULAs of many commercial software offerings. It's enough to make you wonder what you've actually payed for or why you invested time in a technology.

This is different though. At least with OS there's the /chance/ that maintenance can be continued.  Look at Blender3D, which was abandoned by it's commercial owner, but took of when a comunity managed to buy the code and open it up. We've been lucky to have the financial backing of Sun for the past 10 years or so. If you believe Oracle, then we still have it. Synics (justified perhaps) can at least continue to develop the visual web off their own funding.

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Michael Lockhart, Sydney Australia

On 21 February 2010 09:49, < "> > wrote:

http://forums.netbeans.org/post-55665.html&highlight

It turns out that the very very big downside of free open source is the lack of guarentee in the maintenance of so-called "project" which are platform modules. What about if one day, all in a sudden, something I spend months to learn and years to use, is not developped anymore and just throw in trash ?





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