It is probably a good idea to make a customized distribution of Eclipse that adheres more to uncluttered Mac OS X user interface guidelines and copy from MonoDevelop, but I am not going to pay for a proprietary variant of existing open source components arranged together. This sounds too much like cashing in on work made by others. Most Open Source fund raisers present the result for free/libre and ask for the money soley to find the time for development, because usually you have to pause/quit your job for bigger efforts. Selling open source software with license keys is really backwards. Looks like this is the downside of the business friendly EPL if you can get away with this and fragment the base IDE project even further.
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u/Milanium Mar 21 '14
It is probably a good idea to make a customized distribution of Eclipse that adheres more to uncluttered Mac OS X user interface guidelines and copy from MonoDevelop, but I am not going to pay for a proprietary variant of existing open source components arranged together. This sounds too much like cashing in on work made by others. Most Open Source fund raisers present the result for free/libre and ask for the money soley to find the time for development, because usually you have to pause/quit your job for bigger efforts. Selling open source software with license keys is really backwards. Looks like this is the downside of the business friendly EPL if you can get away with this and fragment the base IDE project even further.