Just how “open” is open source vendor-neutrality?

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AB
Adrian Bridgwater
Jul 14, 2011

“Aligned towards Eclipse Java developers who want to build,
secure, and share BI reports for free, Jaspersoft claims to provide
Eclipse developers with more BI capabilities (than any other) when
compared with the reporting tools currently available for
Eclipse.

“Eclipse marketing spokesperson Ian Skerrett said, ‘In the last
week I am very pleased to announce CloudBees and Jaspersoft have
both joined as a member of the Eclipse Foundation and both released
new solutions for Eclipse developers. For some people, it might be
a surprise to have these companies join the Eclipse Foundation
since they are both associated with open source projects that
compete with Eclipse projects.'”


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Adrian Bridgwater

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