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pyre on May 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Eclipse committer on Android IDE switch to Intelli...

I thought that IBM was behind Eclipse, hence the name being a jab at Sun (who created Java, and 'owned' it at the time). That seems more than just a bunch of random people 'scratching an itch.'

jamesaguilar on May 17, 2013 [–]

Given the Twitter comment thread, it seems like IBM is not as involved as it used to be.

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