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Re: [News] Free Software Editors Gradually Make Proprietary Ones Obsolete

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor
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>| "The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools 
>| that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools." Thus 
>| argues John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, which creates and provides UNA, a 
>| source code editor.    
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> http://java.dzone.com/news/interview-john-de-goes-free-un
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This is the inevitable impact of foss.  The commercial gain has moved to
integration, support and development, but away from vendor lock-in.

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